On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 02/01/2012 01:11 PM, jlan wrote:
>
>>
>> I can't use loadbalancer ip, but i can't leave x-Forwarded-For without
>> any content, is there a huge security issue or i'm being paranoic?
>>
>
> Do not enable X-Forwarded-For without checking the origin. That'd allow
> anyone to send requests to your server faking his IP. The integrity of your
> log files would be jeopardized.
>
> I think it'd be acceptable if all requests are going via the load
balancer. In this case, the last value in X-Forwarded-For will *always *be
from the load balancer, so you could trust it.
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