Parse response body and return status code/body based on it

[Francis Daly]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 07:08:44PM -0400, spacerobot wrote:

Hi there,

> I'm trying to achieve an mechanism that for requests to certain endpoints,
> nginx makes a HTTP call to a certain server (mostly POST and DELETE), gets a
> response back, parse the response code and body, and based on the response
> code and the content of the response body, return certain HTTP status
> codes/response to the caller. Is there an existing module that can help
> achieve this?

That sounds like you want a very specific set of things to happen. It is
unlikely that that exact set of things is already in a dedicated module.

I suspect that you will find it easiest to start by using one of the
embedded-language modules and writing your logic in that language -- lua,
perl, and a version of javascript are available; probably more are too.

(If there are specific things that you need, such as issuing a http
DELETE to another url, you will want to confirm that the facility to do
that is available in the language that you choose to use.)

Good luck with it,

	f
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