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Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition
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Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

by Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald, Nedelcu
February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
9h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Browser

The Browser module parses the User-Agent HTTP header of the client request in order to establish values for variables that can be employed later in the configuration. The three variables produced are:

  • $modern_browser: If the client browser is identified as being a modern web browser, the variable takes the value defined by the modern_browser_value directive
  • $ancient_browser: If the client browser is identified as being an old web browser, the variable takes the value defined by ancient_browser_value
  • $msie: This variable is set to 1 if the client is using a Microsoft IE browser

To help Nginx recognize web browsers, distinguishing the old from the modern, you need to insert multiple occurrences of the ancient_browser and modern_browser ...

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ISBN: 9781788623551