nginx rewrite help

[Kevin Castiglione]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Edho P Arief <edhoprima at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Kevin
> Castiglione<kevincastiglione at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/6/18 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
> >>
> >> Also, this
> >>
> >>       if ($http_x_forwarded_for ~ "(?:^|,)\s*(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\s*$")
> {
> >>           set  $addr  $1;
> >>       }
> >>
> >>       fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR     $addr;
> >>
> >> means that anyone may forge his address.
> >
> > without this my web app gets client ip address as the ip address of the
> > machine running nginx and not the actual client.
> >
>
> why not
>
> fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR  $remote_addr;
>
this works great!!!
thanks
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