x-forward-header / x-real-ip

[Payam Chychi]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Payam Chychi <pchychi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/21 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:41:16PM -0700, Payam Chychi wrote:
>>
>>> hey guys,
>>>
>>> what is the main difference between these two? reading the
>>> documentation it looks like both set the ip address of the client on
>>> the request which allows you to pass the real client ip address to a
>>> backend server via nginx proxy...  or i could be totally wrong here!
>>>
>>> I was looking on the site for an example as to how the config would
>>> look if I wanted to let the backend know of the real client ip address
>>> that is requesting the connection... need this for load balancing.:
>>
>> X-Forwared-For is header where proxy servers usually add client addresses:
>> "192.168.1.1, 10.10.10.1, 10.10.1.1". The variable $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for
>> does this addition. X-Real-IP is non standard header, where nginx
>> sets client addresses. Usually you need just one of the them.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Igor Sysoev
>> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>>
>>
>
>
> Hey Igor,
>
> Thanks, ok so by just having $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for  active in my
> proxy.conf,  this should apply itself for all proxyp_pass connections
> sent to the backend correct?
>
>
> --
> Payam
>

anyone have anything on this? would greatly be appreciated

thanks,

-- 
Payam