proxy_pass to different upstreams based on a cookie in the http request header

[Francis Daly]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:46:41AM -0700, Kunal Pariani wrote:

Hi there,

> Am wondering if there is a way to proxy (i.e proxy_pass inside location
> directive) to different set of upstreams based on whether a particular
> cookie is present or not in a http request header.

You can use a map (http://nginx.org/r/map)
to set a variable based on a cookie
(http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#variables),
and you can use a variable in your proxy_pass directive
(http://nginx.org/r/proxy_pass).

So it looks like it should Just Work.

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