map a null/missing variable?

[Jonathan Matthews]

On 13 March 2013 18:19, AJ Weber <aweber at comcast.net> wrote:
> OK,
>
> So I'm still working on my caching "issue", but this is a more general
> question, so for the sake of indexing and helping others in the future with
> (hopefully) a response...
>
> How do I use a map to map the lack of a variable/header/cookie (NULL?) to a
> value?  I can't use "default", because when there IS a value it will be a
> random set of characters.
>
> So that said, if a regex like ".+" would work for "any value" and I use
> 'default' for the NULL, I would try that. :)

Have you read the docs? http://nginx.org/r/map
Just make sure you have a recent enough version that support regex in
maps, and it /should/ be pretty obvious.

Jonathan
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