thanks Robert; X-Forwarded-For is a great suggestion and thanks for verifying that it's not filtered.
We also need to pass a timestamp representing the start of the client's request. So I'm still interested in any Google guidelines on which custom headers are safe from their filtering generally. thanks again, Carter On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Robert Kluin <robert.kl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Carter, > If it is a proxy how about using X-Forwarded-For? I tested using > curl, it doesn't get filtered. > > > Robert > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:04, Carter <jcmas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Any info on GAE-acceptable names for custom HTTP headers? > > We can use User-Agent as workaround, but we'd like to know our > > options. > > > > > > On Jul 27, 3:58 pm, Carter <jcmas...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We have a proxy that needs to send the client's IP address to GAE. > >> We tried setting acustomHTTPheader of "X-client-ip", but that seems > >> to get filtered by GAE. > >> We could include the info in use User-Agent, but that seems hack-ish. > >> > >> The doc (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/runtime.html) > >> says: > >> RequestHeaders > >> "An incomingHTTPrequest includes theHTTPheaderssent by the > >> client. For security purposes, someheadersare sanitized or amended > >> by intermediate proxies before they reach the application." > >> > >> So whatcustomheader name can we use? > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
