Nginx cookie - how to inject variable into cookie

Server NGINX
1

Hey,

im trying to compare the cookie with the remote_addr via nginx but
nginx sees $remote_addr as the text and not the a variable … so it
wont match properly
I do have two cookies… the one I need to match for is the 2nd cookie
“YPF8827340282Jdskjhfiw_928937459182JAX666=96.48.77.222”

            if ( $http_cookie !~

YPF8827340282Jdskjhfiw_928937459182JAX666=$remote_addr ) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /check/$host.shtml last;
break;
}

2009/05/31 02:01:29 [debug] 1775#0: *6 http script regex:
“YPF8827340282Jdskjhfiw_928937459182JAX666=$remote_addr”
2009/05/31 02:01:29 [notice] 1775#0: *6
“YPF8827340282Jdskjhfiw_928937459182JAX666=$remote_addr” does not
match “YPF8827340282Jdskjhfiw_9289374591823=2;
YPF8827340282Jdskjhfiw_928937459182JAX666=96.48.77.222”, client:
96.48.77.222, server: www.whatwentwrong.org, request: “GET /index.html
HTTP/1.1”, host: “www.whatwentwrong.org”, referrer:
“http://www.whatwentwrong.org/index.html”

any ideas?

Thanks in advance

2

Hello!

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:05:12AM -0700, Payam C. wrote:

                    rewrite  ^(.*)$  /check/$host.shtml  last;
                    break;
            }

This wont work since nginx doesn’t allow variables in a right-hand side
of the expression. Workaround is to use something like this:

set $blah "$remote_addr:$http_cookie";
if ($blah !~

“^([0-9.]+):.*YPF8827340282Jdskjhfiw_928937459182JAX666=\1”) {
…
}

This uses static pattern with pcre builtin backreference and will
work as expected.

Maxim D.

3

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Maxim D. [email protected] wrote:

“YPF8827340282Jdskjhfiw_928937459182JAX666=96.48.77.222”
set $blah “$remote_addr:$http_cookie”;
if ($blah !~ “^([0-9.]+):.*YPF8827340282Jdskjhfiw_928937459182JAX666=\1”) {
…
}

This uses static pattern with pcre builtin backreference and will
work as expected.

Maxim D.

Maxim,

Thanks much … worked out great =)