Handling OPTIONS request in nginx

Question

We're using HAProxy as a load balancer at the moment, and it regularly makes requests to the downstream boxes to make sure they're alive using an OPTIONS request:

OPTIONS /index.html HTTP/1.0

I'm working with getting nginx set up as a reverse proxy with caching (using ncache). For some reason, nginx is returning a 405 when an OPTIONS request comes in:

192.168.1.10 - - [22/Oct/2008:16:36:21 -0700] "OPTIONS /index.html HTTP/1.0" 405 325 "-" "-" 192.168.1.10

When hitting the downstream webserver directly, I get a proper 200 response. My question is: how to you make nginx pass that response along to HAProxy, or, how can I set the response in the nginx.conf?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Wanted to follow up on this. The answer was that ngnix does not handle these requests. We're writing a module to deal with that, and hope to contribute it back to the community.

Answer 2

Any updates on this module?

Answer 3

Is this module available yet by any chance?

Answer 4

bump... because I don't want to go back to apache... yuck!

more specifically: I'm using CORS // XHR2 - gotta have OPTIONS!