[D13Fd]

Yeah, this whole thing reads to me like a bug in nginx. There is no obvious reason users would need that functionality.

[m3affan]

What are the alternarives though?

[seanw444]

To Nginx? HAProxy. Or Caddy if you're just doing web stuff.

[terom]

HAProxy does not serve static files, so it's a poor alternative for this specific case.