The Apache instances run under Windows, and the application is a
homegrown windows executable CGI. It's my opinion that the OS choice is
the entire problem, but it's not something we can change without a
complete rewrite of major systems.
I'm a sysadmin, not a developer! I will talk to the developer about
modifying his code. I was hoping to simply duplicate the current
functionality so that they would not need to do that. The
X-Forwarded-For header should be sent through to the CGI, right? I
don't think this is the end of the world.
Thanks,
Shawn
On 12/14/2010 12:04 AM, Anze wrote:
This might be obvious, but still:
all of the programming languages I know of can access REMOTE_ADDR even if they
don't get it via GET vars. For instance, in PHP you can get it from
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']. So there should be no need to use GET vars, just
change the way you access the data. The change should be trivial.
If the code is not yours and you are not allowed to change it, there could
still be some way to fix this. For instance, in PHP you could try
autoprepending this code:
<?php
$_REQUEST['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $_GET['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
?>
That's ugly, of course, but it should still be much faster than Apache
rewrite.
