On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:04:50AM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: > > > AccelSet* adds X-* headers to the request to the backend. This is useful to > > > know what the original request details were. > > > > In ftp://ftp.lexa.ru/pub/apache-rus/contrib/ (where I have been told to > > download mod_accel/mod_deflate from before), I see another file called > > mod_realip-1.0.tar.gz just released one week ago. From looking at the > > keywords in the documentation, it looks like a module to be installed on > > the backend httpd that will parse these X-* headers to retrieve the > > original IP address. > > I basically wrote something similar for the users of mod_proxy_add_forward > 2-3 months ago, it's called mod_rpaf and sets r->connection->remote_ip > and moved the X-Host: headers into the incoming Host: header and then > updates the vhost structure so virtualhosting via mod_proxy_add_forward > works. The module can be found at: http://stderr.net/apache/rpaf/
There is one drawback in setting r->connection->remote_addr. If you want to disable direct access to backend then you can't do it with mod_access - you need to configure firewall. Igor Sysoev
