Re: X-Forwarded-For?

Henry Bramlet schrieb:
> Right, but I am not seeing the X-Forwarded-For even before I put Pen
> behind Apache.
>
> So:
> 80:Apache
> |
> \,/
> 4000:Pen ----> 8000:Mongrel
> \ \---> 8001:Mongrel
> '----> 8002:Mongrel
>
> If I hit port 80, I get the X-Forwarded-For with the originating IP
> address. On the other hand, if I make a request directly to 4000, no
> X-Forwarded-For is added.
>
Is there no X-Forwarded-For header for all or only for POST requests?

Regards
Sirko

> jeanpierre.decorps wrote:
>
>> With Apache, you need to install Module mod_extract_forwarded
>> see here : http://www.cotds.org/mod_extract_forwarded2/
>>
>>
>> Le mardi 19 juin 2007 à 16:30 -0700, Henry Bramlet a écrit :
>>
>>
>>> Hi there. One more question-
>>>
>>> I cannot seem to get Pen to add the X-Forwarded-For tag to the
>>> documents. Or at least, the header is not there when I inspect the
>>> request on my end.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to build a pen software load balancer hitting 3 mongrel
>>> clusters (serving rails) on the same host:
>>>
>>> pen -p log/pen.pid -H 4000 localhost:8000 localhost:8001 localhost:8002
>>>
>>> The problem is that even with the -H, X-Forwarded-For does not seem
>>> to set correctly.
>>>
>>> This isn't a big problem because I will probably serve it behind
>>> apache. But for certain purposes, like debugging and the like, I may
>>> want to just hit the host at 4000...the problem is that without that
>>> IP Address I lose all the state in my application that requires the
>>> IP address as part of the authentication.
>>>
>>> -hb
>>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
Received on Thu Jun 21 2007 - 23:31:40 CEST