nginx with proxy_cache_use_stale not returning from cache when connection refused

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:45:26AM -0500, new299 wrote:

> I'm using nginx as a reverse proxy, but I can't get nginx to serve requests
> from its cache when the upstream server is refusing connections. I
> understood that "proxy_cache_use_stale error" should allow me to do this,
> but it doesn't seem to work for me. Have I perhaps misunderstood something?

You may want to clariy what "doesn't seem to work for me" means.  
What makes you think that it doesn't work?

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Maxim Dounin
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