setting up client ip and hostname in nginx?

[dec w]

you can get client ip, but you can't get client hostname. $host just your
server hostname.

2016-11-01 9:52 GMT+08:00 ngineo <nginx-forum at forum.nginx.org>:

> i am working on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Instance, which runs Java applicaiton
> servered through Nginx ( no load balancer in front, just a standalone
> instance )
> I need to set cookie to catch client ip and client hostname. Is this
> possible to do it in nginx and if yes then how?
> Below if my nginx configuration file:
>
> location / {
> proxy_pass          http://127.0.0.1:5000;
> proxy_http_version  1.1;
>
> proxy_set_header    Connection          $connection_upgrade;
> proxy_set_header    Upgrade             $http_upgrade;
> proxy_set_header    Host                $host;
> proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP           $remote_addr;
> proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For     $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
> }
>
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