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Andy_O_4935
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Nov 01, 2011

X-Forwarded-for Header Insertion

In a lab setup, I wrote an irule to insert an X-forwarder-for header if one doesn't exist and using snat automap.   The Ip address I see on the webserver is the SNAT (floating) IP address which i...
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Michael_Yates
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Nov 01, 2011
Hi Andy,

You could always just check it by logging it to your LTM Log to make sure that it is correct.

Here is an example: 


when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::header exists "X-Forwarded-For"] } {
log local0. "X-Forward IP:  [HTTP::header values "X-Forwarded-For"]"
log local0. "Client IP:  [IP::client_addr]"
}
}

Hope this helps.