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draft-ietf-appsawg-http-forwarded-10 – Forwarded HTTP Extension (X-Forwarded-For, X-Forwarded-By, and X-Forwarded-Proto)

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/21

Since many HTTP stacks do not have fields for this so it’s hard to get the originating IP address:

It is about these HTTP header fields with and without X- prefix:

  • Forwarded
  • X-Forwarded-For
  • X-Forwarded-By
  • X-Forwarded-Proto

Note that widely used tools like HAProxy do not always fully adhere to the “standard”…

Via:

–jeroen

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