> > Now instead you want the content of the url
> > http://externalserver.com/before_body.txt?
>
> Yes, that's right.

Can you actually open the file on the external server - http://externalserver.com/src/before_body.txt and does it have the content you expect (without redirects)?

Note that since you have proxy_pass without the trailing slash nginx will send the request as '/src/before_body.txt'.

If there is no such /src/ directory on the remote server but only /before_body.txt then you have to add the slash at the end:

location /src/ {
proxy_pass http://externalserver.com/;
}

rr

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