On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 06:42:39PM +0300, Kaspars Dambis wrote:

> I have two php scripts (css.php and js.php) which combine all css and js
> files. To make things faster on the client side, I want to
>
> - set expires header to far future
> - not set cookies for those request
>
> Here is what works now:
> location ~ \.php$ {
> # php cgi stuff goes here
>
> if ($request_uri ~ (css|js)\.php) {
> expires max;
> }
> }
>
> location ~ (css|js)\.php {
> fastcgi_hide_header Set-Cookie;
> }
>
> The question is -- why it's not allowed to use *fastcgi_hide_header
> Set-Cookie;* inside the if () { ... } statement?

Because "if" is ugly hack. Period.

You should use

location = /css.php {
# php stuff
fastcgi_hide_header Set-Cookie;
expires max;
}

location = /js.php {
# php stuff
fastcgi_hide_header Set-Cookie;
expires max;
}


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