Expires + if + break

Server NGINX
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This results in the Expires header being set correctly:

location / {
if ($request_uri ~ ^/images/.*$) {
expires max;
break;
}
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
proxy_pass http://mongrel;
}

This does not:

location / {
if ($request_uri ~ ^/images/.*$) {
expires max;
}
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
proxy_pass http://mongrel;
}

In other words, the “expires” works only if I break within the “if”
block. Doesn’t Nginx simply execute all “ifs” in order?

$ /usr/sbin/nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/0.4.13
built by gcc 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-20)

Alexander.