Weird behavior when checking the existence of a cookie

[Francis Daly]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 02:02:12PM -0300, Marcello Rocha wrote:

Hi there,

> I have this location block:
> 
> location /some_path/ {
>         # this sets the mobile_rewrite variable based on a regex against
> the user_agent
>         include /etc/nginx/mobile;
> 
>         # This is where the trouble lies. =/
>         if ($cookie_mobileBypassDaily = yes_please) {
>             set $mobile_rewrite do_not_perform;
>         }

This is an "if" inside a "location" which does something other than
"return" or "rewrite...last".

Generally, that's a thing to avoid.

http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil

Can you move those three lines outside of the "location" block?

Actually: I suspect that the included file also does "if", so you may
want to move that outside of the "location" block too.

>From your description, they both do not depend on the particular request,
so it may be ok to have them both at server{} level (and applying to
all requests).

	f
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