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> it would be nice to know what the benefits are vs nginx and other off the shelf solutions.

Biggest difference in my view is being able to make synchronous blocking calls directly into any arbitrary business code in order to determine the fate of a request. This can include rule/policy engines as well as auditing & tracing frameworks.

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Lua in nginx can you get very far in my experience.

Lua vs C# - chose your poison. There's a ton of AspNet Core libraries for handling http things e.g. JWT handling. Things that might need the licensed version of nginx.

Also it's embeddable and self-hostable into any .NET / AspNet Core application.

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