correct usage of proxy_set_header?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 05:34:44PM -0500, eN_Joy wrote:

> Hello all!
> I have configured a location that acts list a transparent proxying cache:
> 
> 	
> 
>         location /get
>         {
>             set $hostx "";
>             set $addrs "";
>             if ( $uri ~ "^/get/http./+([^/]+)/(.+)$") {
>                 set $hostx $1;
>                 set $addrs $2;
>             }
>             resolver 8.8.8.8;
>             proxy_set_header Referer " ";
>             proxy_pass http://$hostx/$addrs;
>             proxy_redirect off;
>             access_log /var/log/nginx/get_access.log;
>         }
> 
> Basically when i browser to:
> 
> http://mysite.com/get/http://foo.com/bar/some.html 
> 
> it'll get:
> http://foo.com/bar/some.html
> 
> The code indeed works that way, except that the directive `proxy_set_header
> referer " "` is ignored. No matter what value I supply there (in the code
> above, empty), my get_access.log will always show the referer being the
> original refering page? 

The proxy_set_header directive controls headers sent to a proxied 
server.  It has nothing to do with what's logged to access log on 
your server.  Try looking into logs of the proxied server instead.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
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