response-rewrite

This Plugin can be useful in these scenarios:

• To set custom status_code and Location fields in the header to redirect.

tip

You can also use the redirect Plugin to setup redirects.

note

Only one of body or can be configured.

Here, vars is configured to run the Plugin only on responses with a 200 status code.

Once you have enabled the Plugin as shown above, you can make a request:

The response will be as shown below no matter what the response is from the Upstream:

IMPORTANT

However, if ngx.exit is executed during an access phase, it will only interrupt the request processing phase and the response phase will still continue to run.

So, if you have configured the response-rewrite Plugin, it do a force overwrite of the response.