I tend to agree that proxy, being a 'lower level' protocol, aught to represent before remoteip presents itself. Overloading the module seemed like a headache.
That said, as the author of remoteip, I consider my opinions highly biased and untrusted by me myself, so you all sort that out :) Thanks for the feedback, Bill On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:02 AM, Jordan Gigov <colad...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 December 2017 at 11:32, Stefan Eissing <stefan.eiss...@greenbytes.de> > wrote: >> >> Fellow Apache developers: if we want to make an X-mas 2.4 release for the >> people on this planet, the backports in STATUS need your attention: >> >> B2: mod_remoteip: Add PROXY protocol support >> - needs 1 more vote! >> > I find that trying to have both Proxy Protocol and the old remoteip > functionality in the same mod is harder to maintain. I propose that they be > split up before an official release. > > I have not kept-up with the changes over the past few months on the matter, > but I do still have a patch for 2.4.29 that adds HTTPS-identifying headers > to the original mod_remoteip, that also affect the choice of VirtualHost.