location-specific charset not respected

[Lorenzo Raffio]

Is it intended that

location /somelocation {

index index.htm;
charset windows-1251;

}

..isn't respected? charset outside location (in server block) works.

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

I've just tested with the configuration below:

events {}

http {
    default_type application/octet-stream;
    include conf/mime.types;

    server {
         location /index {
            index index.htm;
            charset windows-1251;
        }
    }
}

and it seems all works as expected:

% curl -I localhost:8000/index.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.5.8
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:16:21 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1251
Content-Length: 612
Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:39:22 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "52d95cba-264"
Accept-Ranges: bytes

I suspect your problem is not with the charset directive but with configuration, where requests actually are handled by another location. Please note, that every request is handled by only one location block.

You can check the documentation:

• ​How nginx processes a request
• ​The location directive

and ask further questions in mailing list: ​http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx