"Pier Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The new upcoming servlet API will include some new methods to retrieve the
> connection IP and PORT in case of proxied HTTP requests.
>
> It will be basically required to obtain the following:
>
> - IP + PORT of the remote client
> - IP + PORT of requested by the client
> - IP + PORT where the request was received by the server
>
> (the latter are different in case you have a proxied request, because you
> can get both the IP + PORT of the proxy server where the original request
> was received and the IP + PORT of the servlet container where the proxied
> request was forwarded to).
>
> Would it make any sense to extend the already-present capability of
> mod_proxy with X-Forwarded-... headers to include the original client port
> number and the IP + PORT of the Apache instance receiving the original
> request?
>
> The X-Forwarded-For would contain something like 192.168.1.2:19876 (instead
> of just the first bit before the ':'), and I would need to add another
> header containing the IP of the client connection (I was thinking about
> something like: "X-Forwarded-Address: 10.0.0.1:80"
>
> What do you guys think?
Forget about the second part... That should be the "Via" header, right?
Pier
