On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:43 PM, fxdemolisher <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:
> As per the http header module's documentation (link) the add_header directive does not work for 40x and 50x error pages.
>

With the headers_more module (
http://github.com/agentzh/headers-more-nginx-module ), it will by
default apply to all the status codes, including 4xx and 5xx.

> This is something that is required by my project since NGINX is responsible for serving error pages and we need to set specific cookies when the error page is displayed.
>

I'm not sure if you want to use nginx variables in your cookies. If
yes, then headers_more needs more work to make you happy :)

Cheers,
-agentzh