Re: [squid-users] Getting Source-IP

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Andreas Müller <amuelle1_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using squid as accel proxy. Is there a posibility to inject the source
> IP into the http header send to webserver?
>
> I know that there is "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR" but it seems that the content of
> this parameter is not clear if this parameter is already in the request
> header (e.g. the request already comes from a proxy). Sometimes I get a
> comma separated list, sometimes not.
>

Squid has done its best with X_FORWARDED_FOR.
For other solution, you may get the real client's IP with some client
technologies like Javascript.

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Jeff Pang
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