Can NGINX add an empty payload

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Hello

I have taken the NGINX training but the following question was not
covered.
I am hoping I can get some help from the community. Thank you in
advance.

Can NGINX add empty (or static non empty) payload to a request when
proxying
to a server in the Location directive (or elsewhere)

For example

Client => NGINX => Server

Client sends http://example.com/some/path
NGINX adds -d ‘{“version”: “1.1”}’ -H “Content-Type: application/json”
Server receives http://example.com/some/path -d ‘{“version”: “1.1”}’ -H
“Content-Type: application/json”

The reason why I am asking is because I have a client that sends
requests
without payload and the server expects that payload exists (even if it
does
not get processed)

Thank you for your help

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Hello!

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:49:07PM -0400, matt_l wrote:

Client => NGINX => Server

Client sends http://example.com/some/path
NGINX adds -d ‘{“version”: “1.1”}’ -H “Content-Type: application/json”
Server receives http://example.com/some/path -d ‘{“version”: “1.1”}’ -H
“Content-Type: application/json”

The reason why I am asking is because I have a client that sends requests
without payload and the server expects that payload exists (even if it does
not get processed)

This should be possible with proxy_set_header and proxy_set_body,
see here:

http://nginx.org/r/proxy_set_body
http://nginx.org/r/proxy_set_header

–
Maxim D.
http://nginx.org/