# Ngx\_set\_misc v0.14: extending ngx\_rewrite's "set" directive

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ngx-set-misc-v0-14-extending-ngx-rewrites-set-directive/194312>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [September 2, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ngx-set-misc-v0-14-extending-ngx-rewrites-set-directive/194312 "2010-09-02T10:14:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![agentzh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@agentzh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agentzh)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ngx-set-misc-v0-14-extending-ngx-rewrites-set-directive/194312/1 "2010-09-02T10:14:59Z")

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Hi, folks!

I’m happy to announce the first public release of our [Taobao.com](http://Taobao.com)  
ngx\_set\_misc module, v0.14.

ngx\_set\_misc is an nginx module that extends the standard ngx\_rewrite  
module’s “set” directive to support various advanced functionalities  
like MD5, SHA1, json/mysql/postgresql string literal quoting, URI  
escaping/unescaping, default variable value assignment, upstream  
hashing based on a custom key, base32 encoding/decoding, and more 🙂

Please see the project homepage for more details:

```
http://github.com/agentzh/set-misc-nginx-module

```

And the release tarball can be downloaded from

```
http://github.com/agentzh/set-misc-nginx-module/tarball/v0.14

```

Various (funny) use cases can be found in my “nginx.conf scripting”  
talk’s slides:

```
http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-conf-scripting/ (use the

```

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I must thank my colleagues shrimp and calio for their work on  
polishing this module in the last few months.

This module won’t be possible if Marcus C. does not publish his  
crazy Nginx Development Kit (NDK) project:

```
http://github.com/simpl-it/ngx_devel_kit

```

And it’s a prerequisite for this module 🙂

I know that this module has a really terrible name, but it’s been  
there for months already 😛

We’ve been using it extensively in our products of [Taobao.com](http://Taobao.com). And  
[Qunar.com](http://Qunar.com) is also using it heavily in their production environment.

Enjoy!  
-agentzh