- From: Peter W <peterw@usa.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:20:43 -0400
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:04:55PM +0530, Ajay wrote: > i m writing a small webserver. i just want to know that when the client connects to the webserver through proxy > th webserver gets the proxy ip. is there any way by which i can get the actual client ip. Some HTTP proxies will provide aditional request headers to indicate the originating IP address (e.g., squid's forwarded_for directive) but such information is rare, optional, and cannot be trusted (unless you control the proxy server that is adding the request header). Even when the information can be trusted, it often refers to unroutable address space. -Peter
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