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Paul_Roberts_16
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Jul 21, 2014

X-Forwarded-For and SNAT addresses

When debugging a minor issue for a client a couple of weeks ago, I wound up staring at a screenful of header dump that showed the X-Forwarded-For value which appears to be not the IP address of the r...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Jul 21, 2014

IP::remote_addr is contextual, meaning it returns a different value depending on which side of the proxy it's called from. In this case it should indeed be the client's address, but I prefer to use IP::client_addr as a more definitive option. If you add the log statement, what value do you get?