nginx 0.8.34 *) Bugfix: nginx did not support all ciphers and digests used in client certificates. Thanks to Innocenty Enikeew. *) Bugfix: nginx cached incorrectly FastCGI responses if there was large stderr output before response. *) Bugfix: nginx did not support HTTPS referrers. *) Bugfix: nginx/Windows might not find file if path in configuration was given in other character case; the bug had appeared in 0.8.34. *) Bugfix: the $date_local variable has an incorrect value, if the "%s" format was used. Thanks to Maxim Dounin. *) Bugfix: if ssl_session_cache was not set or was set to "none", then during client certificate verify the error "session id context uninitialized" might occur; the bug had appeared in 0.7.1. *) Bugfix: a geo range returned default value if the range included two or more /16 networks and did not begin at /16 network boundary. *) Bugfix: a block used in a "stub" parameter of an "include" SSI directive was output with "text/plain" MIME type. *) Bugfix: $r->sleep() did not work; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.

--- a/src/http/ngx_http_variables.c
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http_variables.c
@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ static ngx_http_variable_t  ngx_http_cor
     { ngx_string("server_name"), NULL, ngx_http_variable_server_name, 0, 0, 0 },
 
     { ngx_string("request_method"), NULL,
-      ngx_http_variable_request_method, 0, 0, 0 },
+      ngx_http_variable_request_method, 0,
+      NGX_HTTP_VAR_NOCACHEABLE, 0 },
 
     { ngx_string("remote_user"), NULL, ngx_http_variable_remote_user, 0, 0, 0 },
 
@@ -494,7 +495,7 @@ ngx_http_get_variable(ngx_http_request_t
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    if (ngx_strncmp(name->data, "upstream_http_", 10) == 0) {
+    if (ngx_strncmp(name->data, "upstream_http_", 14) == 0) {
 
         if (ngx_http_upstream_header_variable(r, vv, (uintptr_t) name)
             == NGX_OK)