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I have an nginx server that logs POST $request_body to a file. When I post json to the server, it replaces quotes (") with \x22.

My config looks like this

server {
    server_name myServer;
    listen 8180;
    log_format logMyServer '$request_body';
    location /myServer {
        access_log  /var/log/nginx/request_bodies.log logMyServer;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/;

        break;
    }
}

Here is how I'm generating the request:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"some":{"foo":"bar"}}' localhost:8180/myServer/

My questions are:

• What kind of encoding is \x[number]?
• Is there a way I can configure the logging to include quotes instead of \x22?