in search of the complete 444

[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

Thanks, Moshe. I've tried that, but I've found that if you send
anything that's invalid at the HTTP layer by nginx, like talking http
to a https server, or sending invalid http (random junk), you'll get
either 400 or 500. It's still not "complete", unfortunately.

-jf

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On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 4:54 AM Moshe Katz <moshe at ymkatz.net> wrote:
>
> I found the same question asked on StackOverflow a few years ago:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41421111/http-444-no-response-instead-of-404-403-error-pages
>
> The accepted answer says to do it this way:
>
> ```
> error_page 400 =444 @blackhole;
>
> location @blackhole {
>     return 444;
> }
> ```
>
> They key that you missed is the "=444" in the error_page directive. It seems like you need BOTH that and the `return 444` in the location block.
>
> Moshe
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 4:35 PM Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've been trying and scratching my head over this for some time now.
>> I've always set up a default server to return 444, but I've not been
>> able to make it do the 444 *always*. If I get an invalid response,
>> nginx "skips" the 444 to return 400 instead. I'd rather nginx do the
>> 444, and not return 400.
>>
>> I've searched and tried various things (like setting "error_page 400"
>> to some location, and then returning 444 for that location), but I
>> have not found anything that really works. Is there just no way to
>> have a "complete" 444 response? What will it take to do this?
>>
>> thanks,
>> -jf
>>
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