Forum: NGINX how to check for headers

Hello,

How would you check for sth like HTTP:Accept-Language? and in general 
all
headers? if it is equal to some value, empty or etc. Apache would allow 
this
to be checked in a notation similar to the following inside a 
mod_rewrite
config:

%{HTTP:Accept-Language}

Is there a similar variable to be used in nginx config?

Posted at Nginx Forum: 
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,229839,229839#msg-229839

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 06:23:04AM -0400, amonmitch wrote:

Hi there,

> How would you check for sth like HTTP:Accept-Language? and in general all
> headers? if it is equal to some value, empty or etc. Apache would allow this
> to be checked in a notation similar to the following inside a mod_rewrite
> config:
>
> %{HTTP:Accept-Language}
>
> Is there a similar variable to be used in nginx config?

variables are at
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module...

"map" is at http://nginx.org/r/map

"if" is at http://nginx.org/r/if

Be aware of when you shouldn't use "if" inside "location", such as is
written at http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil

Depending on what exactly you want to do, frequently "map" can be used
instead of "if".

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