id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc uname nginx_version 283 proxy_method does not support variable dereferencing gcnovus.myopenid.com "See [http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2008-January/002881.html this email from five years ago]. The following doesn't work: {{{ location /proxy { internal; set $proxy_to_url $upstream_http_x_proxy_to_url set $proxy_to_host $upstream_http_x_proxy_to_host set $proxy_to_method $upstream_http_x_proxy_to_method proxy_set_header Host $proxy_to_host; proxy_pass $proxy_to_url; proxy_method $proxy_to_method; } }}} The other directives interpret the arguments as variables to dereference, but proxy_method does not. This is particularly important for the case where a request is from a browser that doesn't support PUT or DELETE, so the upstream server has to calculate the verb." enhancement closed minor nginx-module 1.3.x fixed proxy Darwin MyMachine.local 11.4.2 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 "nginx: nginx version: nginx/1.0.4 nginx: TLS SNI support enabled nginx: configure arguments: --prefix=/Users/me/Cellar/nginx/1.0.4 --with-http_ssl_module --with-pcre --conf-path=/Users/me/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --pid-path=/Users/me/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/Users/me/var/nginx/nginx.lock"