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by mdaniel 1583 days ago
It wouldn't surprise me if they consider that WONTFIX given they wrote a whole wiki page entitled "If is Evil": https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/depth/ifis...
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I can understand why certain directives don't work inside an if, even if segfault is dumb.

Why are the empty if blocks breaking things outside of them?

Oh I know. Hardly inspires confidence; all of those examples are clear bugs declared features because of poor programming practices.