For various reasons, we've got our node.js server running behind a protocol-agnostic (dumb TCP-pass through) reverse proxy/load balancer and SSL terminators, and we need to get the IP address of the original connection. HTTP header rewriting isn't feasible because of the protocol-agnostic load balancing and the point at which the SSL termination happens.
It's easy to add in things like a HAProxy PROXY protocol line (one line of text inserted before the actual stream of data with the original IP), but I can't find any way to parse this out of HTTP requests which doesn't require modifying and rebuilding node. I made a change to node to allow this, and it is pretty small, simply emitting a 'preparse' event before sending the stream to the HTTP parser: https://github.com/Jimbly/node/commit/e8952ebbba5fa278aeada1af41b524fa092f812d Is there a better way of going about this? Any way to inject this kind of functionality without modifying the node source (which is painful for maintenance and roll-out if we need to maintain and update our own fork/branch/etc). For the maintainers: would this functionality be acceptable to add to the core http module? Any better way of implementing this (seems a bit hacky the way I did it). -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
