versions verified the issue with:

nginx-0.8.14 - down to 8.05
nginx-0.7.62
nginx-0.7.61
nginx-0.7.60

confirmed working versions:
nginx-0.7.54 - to up nginx-0.7.59
nginx-0.8.0

working example:
UnclePiemanss-MacBook-2:~ payam$ wget -S -v http://69.172.200.17/
--18:16:38-- http://69.172.200.17/
=> `index.html.119'
Connecting to 69.172.200.17:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.7.59
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:19:03 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0-8+etch15
Set-Cookie: GCD=URTDQW4I; expires=Tue, 17-Nov-2009 01:16:39 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=45f6fdf9e53cfa9fe415a949501c088a; path=/
Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: session2=8c0e63311310a925e3c5cc59349cef25; expires=Wed,
18-Sep-2019 13:16:39 GMT; path=/
Length: unspecified [text/html]

[ <=>
] 16,081 --.--K/s

18:16:39 (168.53 KB/s) - `index.html.119' saved [16081]


non-working example:
UnclePiemanss-MacBook-2:~ payam$ wget -S -v http://69.172.200.17/
--18:16:20-- http://69.172.200.17/
=> `index.html.118'
Connecting to 69.172.200.17:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.7.60
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:18:45 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0-8+etch15
Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Length: unspecified [text/html]

[ <=>
] 16,081 --.--K/s

18:16:21 (136.66 KB/s) - `index.html.118' saved [16081]


Perhaps something has changed in the versions that the testing failed
in... not too sure

Thanks,
--
Payam Tarverdyan Chychi
Network Security Specialist / Network Engineer