On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 11:07:13AM -0800, Igal @ getRailo.org wrote:

Hi there,

> I want to be able to identify requests by a unique id.
>
> I'm able to do this in the location section:
>
> proxy_set_header X-Request-Id
> $pid-$msec-$remote_addr-$request_length;
>
> but I want instead to set it to a variable, e.g. in the http section:
>
> set $request_id $pid-$msec-$remote_addr-$request_length; ## does
> this work?

http://nginx.org/r/set

No.

It can be at "server" level, though.

> add_header X-Request-Id $request_id; ## I don't see it in
> the response headers

You probably were not running with this configuration.

> can it work?

With "set" at server{} level, yes.

All of the normal nginx configuration directive rules apply.

f
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Francis Daly francis@daoine.org

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