nginx reverse proxy add request cookie

Question

I have to use reverse proxy for a project. I need to add request cookie in nginx.

The case like:

request comes with header. other servis want to this variable in cookie. I tried many way for resolve this problem. I did not manage to.

Anyone can help me ? Thanks

Answer 1

Do you want to move parameter from header to cookie? Try something like this:

location / {
...
proxy_set_header Cookie "MY_COOKIE_PARAM=${http_my_header_param}; ${http_cookie}";
...
}