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I think that regex matches any string as well - ^ simply matches the start of a line and all strings have a start. It might also be more performant because the

I think that regex matches any string as well - ^ simply matches the start of a line and all strings have a start. It might also be more performant because the regex engine doesn't consume the whole string before finding a match..

mnutt 16y ago
That is exactly right. See "Taxing Rewrites" on http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls