nginx lua set proxy headers

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I believe this should be an easy find but for the life of me I cannot find an answer. I am trying to set proxy headers and I have tried the following ways:

location / {
        access_by_lua '
            ngx.header["ZZZZ"] = zzzzz
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
        ';

OR

location / {
        access_by_lua '
            ngx.proxy_set_header["ZZZZ"] = zzzzz
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
        ';

What is the correct way to set a proxy header.

Thank you stabiuti

Himanshu Mishra · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-25 21:23:40Z

7

To set or clear headers being sent to proxy_pass, you can use following

to set headers, use

ngx.req.set_header(header_name, value)

to clear headers, use

ngx.req.clear_header(header)

to clear all headers, you can write

for header, _ in pairs(ngx.req.get_headers()) do
    ngx.req.clear_header(header)
end

Now to answer your question, you can use

location / {
        access_by_lua_block {
            ngx.req.set_header("ZZZZ", zzzzz)
        }
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
}

Make sure to write it in access_by_lua or rewrite_by_lua.

edited Jun 25, 2020 at 21:23

answered Mar 2, 2020 at 17:37

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Doc Dark · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-23 09:00:44Z

server{
    location /v1 {
        if ($request_method != 'OPTIONS' ) {
            header_filter_by_lua_block{
                local allowed = {["cache-control"]= true,["content-language"]=true,["content-type"]=true,["expires"]=true};
                for key,value in pairs (ngx.resp.get_headers()) do
                    if (allowed[string.lower(key)]==nil) then
                        ngx.header[key]="";
                    end
                end
            }
        }
    }
    proxy_pass https://smth:8080; 
}

This is my example how to change the headers sent to the client

Note that ngx.header is not a normal Lua table and as such, it is not possible to iterate through it using the Lua ipairs function.

Note: HEADER and VALUE will be truncated if they contain the \r or \n characters. The truncated values will contain all characters up to (and excluding) the first occurrence of \r or \n.

For reading request headers, use the ngx.req.get_headers function instead. (https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#ngxheaderheader)

Usama Ejaz · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-26 03:48:11Z

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This is not a correct way. You dont need to use lua for setting proxy headers. Without lua, you can simply do:

location / {
    proxy_set_header ZZZZ zzzzz;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
}

You can read more about nginx proxy module here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html

answered Jan 26, 2016 at 3:48

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