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How to have nginx proxy_pass follow upstream 302 redirects (eg, when you're running a steam cache and you're behind Cox's layer 7 interception stuff)
# This config came around after a friend had problems with a Steam cache on his
# Cox internet connection. Cox would intercept any requests to Steam content
# servers and return a 302 to Cox's servers. The cache would return the 302
# to the Steam client, and the Steam client would go directly to Cox, bypassing
# the cache.
# This config makes nginx follow the 302 itself, and caches the result of the
# redirect as if it was the response to the original request. So subsequent
# requests to the URL that returned a 302 will get the file instead of a 302.
proxy_cache_path /cache keys_zone=steam:100m levels=1:2 inactive=100d max_size=1000g;
server {
listen 80;
charset utf-8;
client_max_body_size 75M;
# main cache block - when upstream responds with a 302, it's caught by
# error_page and passed off to the (nearly identical) @handle_redirects
location / {
proxy_pass http://web;
proxy_cache steam;
proxy_cache_key $uri;
proxy_cache_valid 200 206 3000h;
proxy_intercept_errors on;
error_page 301 302 307 = @handle_redirects;
}
location @handle_redirects {
#store the current state of the world so we can reuse it in a minute
# We need to capture these values now, because as soon as we invoke
# the proxy_* directives, these will disappear
set $original_uri $uri;
set $orig_loc $upstream_http_location;
# nginx goes to fetch the value from the upstream Location header
proxy_pass $orig_loc;
proxy_cache steam;
# But we store the result with the cache key of the original request URI
# so that future clients don't need to follow the redirect too
proxy_cache_key $original_uri;
proxy_cache_valid 200 206 3000h;
}
}
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