If you don't like 301 redirects because permanent caching — can't blame you
there, as I'm in same boat — an easier way would be to simply use what I
call the exception handling mechanism of nginx to change all 301 replies to
302, and you don't need any patches to perform such a change, as a simple
nginx.conf snippet would suffice:
error_page 301 =302 @200;
location @200 {
# https://serverfault.com/a/870911/110020
default_type "";
return 200;
}
If you don't like the `200` part in the config, and lack of a body in the
response, then the following is also an option:
error_page 301 = @302;
location @302 {
# https://serverfault.com/a/870722/110020
return 302 $sent_http_location;
}
I've tested both of the above for directory access sans `/`, and both do
the job just fine.
Cheers,
Constantine.SU. http://cm.su/
On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 at 17:46, Blake Williams <ng...@qzxj.net> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> We ran into an issue where with the permanent redirects in
> ngx_http_static_module.c that occur when you omit a slash when requesting a
> folder, for example from "/foo" to the folder "/foo/". We changed some
> things around in our site so that "/foo" was actually a file, not a folder,
> but unfortunately, browsers aggressively cache 301 redirects so our clients
> were trying to hit the new URL, the browser used its permanent cache, and
> they'd be redirected to "/foo/" again, which no longer existed as it had
> been changed to a file.
>
> This patch adds an extra configuration directive that allows you to
> configure that redirect to issue a 302 instead:
>
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Blake Williams <c...@shabbyrobe.org>
> # Date 1567294381 -36000
> # Sun Sep 01 09:33:01 2019 +1000
> # Node ID 85c36c3f5c349a83b1b397a8aad2d11bf6a0875a
> # Parent 9f1f9d6e056a4f85907957ef263f78a426ae4f9c
> Add slash_redirect_temporary directive to core
>
> diff -r 9f1f9d6e056a -r 85c36c3f5c34 contrib/vim/syntax/nginx.vim
> --- a/contrib/vim/syntax/nginx.vim Mon Aug 19 15:16:06 2019 +0300
> +++ b/contrib/vim/syntax/nginx.vim Sun Sep 01 09:33:01 2019 +1000
> @@ -571,6 +571,7 @@
> syn keyword ngxDirective contained session_log_format
> syn keyword ngxDirective contained session_log_zone
> syn keyword ngxDirective contained set_real_ip_from
> +syn keyword ngxDirective contained slash_redirect_temporary
> syn keyword ngxDirective contained slice
> syn keyword ngxDirective contained smtp_auth
> syn keyword ngxDirective contained smtp_capabilities
> diff -r 9f1f9d6e056a -r 85c36c3f5c34
> src/http/modules/ngx_http_static_module.c
> --- a/src/http/modules/ngx_http_static_module.c Mon Aug 19 15:16:06 2019
> +0300
> +++ b/src/http/modules/ngx_http_static_module.c Sun Sep 01 09:33:01 2019
> +1000
> @@ -188,7 +188,11 @@
> r->headers_out.location->value.len = len;
> r->headers_out.location->value.data = location;
>
> - return NGX_HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY;
> + if (!clcf->slash_redirect_temporary) {
> + return NGX_HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY;
> + } else {
> + return NGX_HTTP_MOVED_TEMPORARILY;
> + }
> }
>
> #if !(NGX_WIN32) /* the not regular files are probably Unix specific */
> diff -r 9f1f9d6e056a -r 85c36c3f5c34 src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c
> --- a/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c Mon Aug 19 15:16:06 2019 +0300
> +++ b/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c Sun Sep 01 09:33:01 2019 +1000
> @@ -520,6 +520,13 @@
> offsetof(ngx_http_core_loc_conf_t, satisfy),
> &ngx_http_core_satisfy },
>
> + { ngx_string("slash_redirect_temporary"),
> +
> NGX_HTTP_MAIN_CONF|NGX_HTTP_SRV_CONF|NGX_HTTP_LOC_CONF|NGX_CONF_FLAG,
> + ngx_conf_set_flag_slot,
> + NGX_HTTP_LOC_CONF_OFFSET,
> + offsetof(ngx_http_core_loc_conf_t, slash_redirect_temporary),
> + NULL },
> +
> { ngx_string("internal"),
> NGX_HTTP_LOC_CONF|NGX_CONF_NOARGS,
> ngx_http_core_internal,
> @@ -3443,6 +3450,8 @@
> clcf->open_file_cache_errors = NGX_CONF_UNSET;
> clcf->open_file_cache_events = NGX_CONF_UNSET;
>
> + clcf->slash_redirect_temporary = NGX_CONF_UNSET;
> +
> #if (NGX_HTTP_GZIP)
> clcf->gzip_vary = NGX_CONF_UNSET;
> clcf->gzip_http_version = NGX_CONF_UNSET_UINT;
> @@ -3727,6 +3736,9 @@
>
> ngx_conf_merge_sec_value(conf->open_file_cache_events,
> prev->open_file_cache_events, 0);
> +
> + ngx_conf_merge_value(conf->slash_redirect_temporary,
> + prev->slash_redirect_temporary, 0);
> #if (NGX_HTTP_GZIP)
>
> ngx_conf_merge_value(conf->gzip_vary, prev->gzip_vary, 0);
> diff -r 9f1f9d6e056a -r 85c36c3f5c34 src/http/ngx_http_core_module.h
> --- a/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.h Mon Aug 19 15:16:06 2019 +0300
> +++ b/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.h Sun Sep 01 09:33:01 2019 +1000
> @@ -433,6 +433,8 @@
> ngx_uint_t types_hash_max_size;
> ngx_uint_t types_hash_bucket_size;
>
> + ngx_flag_t slash_redirect_temporary;
> +
> ngx_queue_t *locations;
>
> #if 0
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