By veerareddy
I want to use nginx to rate limit access to my API end-points only when the origin server response code is 401(Unauthorized). I have searched everywhere and couldn’t find anything related to my issue so please let me know if this is doable with nginx. Thanks in advance.
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This isn’t something I’ve attempted and doing some searching shows that you’ve been looking around for an answer for this quite a bit lately :)
You can have nginx intercept upstream error messages, so with that turned on you could rate limit based on a 401 response in the same way as if that error was local to nginx.
This shows an example of the option to intercept upstream error codes.
You might want to try something like this: https://serverfault.com/questions/907860/nginx-limit-request-based-on-response-status-code
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