----- "Maxim Dounin" <mdounin@mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 02:38:34PM +0100, Valery Kholodkov wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Alternatively, this may be handled by something like
> > >
> > > set $mogilefs_failover 1;
> > > proxy_pass $mogilefs_path;
> > >
> > > with appropriate lookup of $mogilefs_failover in code before
> > > returning value for $mogilefs_path.
> >
> > This is impossible, because I do not evaluate $mogilefs_path
> variable dynamically. nginx discards all modules' context when it does
> an internal redirect. Instead, I simply assign a value to variable and
> the value survives during internal redirect.
>
> You may preserve old context by (surprise!) assigning it to a
> variable. But it seems overkill for me, too. :)

Yes. This looks like a dirty hack. Personally, I was surprised when I discovered that redirects clear contexts.

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Regards,
Valery Kholodkov