I did something I am sure is terrible and hacked up the source so that I could use http_302 along with proxy_next_upstream. This appears to do what I want, though now I am not sure that HttpLimitReqModule can actually do what I need. Andyby vdavidoff - Nginx Mailing List - English
I tried playing with proxy_intercept_errors and error_page to change 302s to 500s, then added http_500 to proxy_next_upstream, but this doesn't seem to mark a proxy as down. I assume as far as HttpUpstreamModule is concerned, the response is a 302, prior to it being converted to a 500 (?). Andyby vdavidoff - Nginx Mailing List - English
Hi, I just started playing with Nginx. My goal is to rate limit requests to a set of backend proxies, and it looks like I want to do this using the modules HttpUpstreamModule, HttpProxyModule, and HttpLimitReqModule modules. I see that HttpUpstreamModule marks an upstream server as inoperable based on the setting of proxy_next_upstream. However, I need to be able to mark a server as inoperabby vdavidoff - Nginx Mailing List - English