Are headers set in the server block inherited to all location blocks

[justink101]

Gosh that is horrible that I have to copy and paste shared headers in the
server block, to all location blocks. Is this a conscious decision? This
makes maintainability very difficult as i have to do something like:

[code]
# shared_headers.conf
add_header  Alternate-Protocol 443:npn-spdy/3;
add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31556926;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;

# expires.conf
location ~* \.(?:ico|css|gif|jpe?g|png|xml)$ {
  include shared_headers.conf;

  expires 7d;
  add_header Pragma public;
  add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
}

server {
    ...
    location ^~ /icons {
        include shared_headers.conf;

        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
    }

     location ^~ /docs {
        include shared_headers.conf;

        auth_basic "Docs";
        auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/auth/docs.htpasswd;
     }

     location ^~ /actions {
          include shared_headers.conf;

          add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin https://www.mydomain.com;
     }
}
[/code]

Or, is there a better way to do this?

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,247185,247215#msg-247215