IP passthrough?

[Mark Smith]

>
> My application logs the IP addresses of visitors, and bans users who try
> to abuse the system.  However, after using Perlbal, all requests end up
> going through the Perlbal server, and so on the web server end, there's only
> one source IP, the Perlbal server's.
>
> Is there a way to fix this problem so that my application can still ban
> IPs as needed? Maybe a HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header?
>

IIRC Perlbal does this already automatically.  X-Forwarded-For is set to the
source IP address of the client as long as you haven't set
trusted_upstream_proxies to something and the incoming request matches it.


-- 
Mark Smith / xb95
smitty at gmail.com
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