diff --git a/docker/nginx/conf.d/include/location-skylink b/docker/nginx/conf.d/include/location-skylink
index abca26f6..4ccb99ed 100644
--- a/docker/nginx/conf.d/include/location-skylink
+++ b/docker/nginx/conf.d/include/location-skylink
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 include /etc/nginx/conf.d/include/cors;
-include /etc/nginx/conf.d/include/proxy-buffer;
+include /etc/nginx/conf.d/include/proxy-buffer; # tried removing this one
 #include /etc/nginx/conf.d/include/proxy-cache-downloads;
-include /etc/nginx/conf.d/include/track-download;
+include /etc/nginx/conf.d/include/track-download; # tried removing this one
 
 # ensure that skylink that we pass around is base64 encoded (transform base32 encoded ones)
 # this is important because we want only one format in cache keys and logs
@@ -72,22 +72,22 @@ header_filter_by_lua_block {
     ngx.header["Skynet-Portal-Api"] = ngx.var.scheme .. "://" .. ngx.var.skynet_portal_domain
     ngx.header["Skynet-Server-Api"] = ngx.var.scheme .. "://" .. ngx.var.skynet_server_domain
 
-    -- the block below only makes sense if we are using nginx cache
-    if not ngx.var.skyd_disk_cache_enabled then
-        -- not empty skynet_proof means this is a skylink v2 request
-        -- so we should replace the Skynet-Proof header with the one
-        -- we got from /skynet/resolve/ endpoint, otherwise we would
-        -- be serving cached empty v1 skylink Skynet-Proof header
-        if ngx.var.skynet_proof and ngx.var.skynet_proof ~= "" then
-            ngx.header["Skynet-Proof"] = ngx.var.skynet_proof
-        end
+    #-- the block below only makes sense if we are using nginx cache
+    #if not ngx.var.skyd_disk_cache_enabled then
+    #    -- not empty skynet_proof means this is a skylink v2 request
+    #    -- so we should replace the Skynet-Proof header with the one
+    #    -- we got from /skynet/resolve/ endpoint, otherwise we would
+    #    -- be serving cached empty v1 skylink Skynet-Proof header
+    #    if ngx.var.skynet_proof and ngx.var.skynet_proof ~= "" then
+    #        ngx.header["Skynet-Proof"] = ngx.var.skynet_proof
+    #    end
 
-        -- add skylink to nocache list if it exceeds 1GB (1e+9 bytes) threshold
-        -- (content length can be nil for already cached files - we can ignore them)
-        if ngx.header["Content-Length"] and tonumber(ngx.header["Content-Length"]) > 1e+9 then
-            ngx.shared.nocache:set(ngx.var.skylink_v1, ngx.header["Content-Length"])
-        end
-    end
+    #    -- add skylink to nocache list if it exceeds 1GB (1e+9 bytes) threshold
+    #    -- (content length can be nil for already cached files - we can ignore them)
+    #    if ngx.header["Content-Length"] and tonumber(ngx.header["Content-Length"]) > 1e+9 then
+    #        ngx.shared.nocache:set(ngx.var.skylink_v1, ngx.header["Content-Length"])
+    #    end
+    #end
 }
 
 proxy_read_timeout 600;