In Nginx, can I handle both a location:url or a content-type: text/html response from memcached?

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Published on 2010-04-10T04:06:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 4:13 UTC
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I'm setting up an nginx - apache reverse proxy where nginx handles the static files and apache the dynamic. I have a search engine and depending on search parameter I either directly forward the user to the page they are looking for or provide a set of search results.

I cache these results in memcached as

key:/search.cgi?q=foo
value: LOCATION:http://www.example.com/foo.html

and

key:/search.cgi?q=bar
value: CONTENT-TYPE: text/html

<html>
....
....
</html>

I can pull the "Content-type...." values out of memcached using nginx and send them to the user, but I can't quite figure out how to handle a returned value like "Location..."

Can I?

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