You can take the source code for RemoteIPFilter and have it look at the X-Forwarded-For header.
Even better offer a patch to RemoteIPFilter to allow the header field name to be configured. You are not the only one with this use case. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 15, 2016, at 7:07 AM, André Warnier (tomcat) <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > >> On 15.02.2016 13:03, Dhanushka Parakrama wrote: >> Hi Guys >> >> I have a Tomcat instance behind the load balancer (LB) , LB will pass the >> client ip address to backed tomcat instance using *X-forward-for* header . >> >> I basically want to filter user traffic based on the *X-forwaed-for* header >> in tomcat instance >> >> i have configured the following filter in tomcat , but it not working >> >> >> <filter> >> <filter-name>Remote Address Filter</filter-name> >> <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.RemoteIpFilter</filter-class> >> <init-param> >> <param-name>allow</param-name> >> >> <param-value>localhost|205\.97\.96\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1</param-value> >> </init-param> >> </filter> >> >> <filter-mapping> >> <filter-name>Remote Address Filter</filter-name> >> <url-pattern>/mgt/*</url-pattern> >> </filter-mapping> >> >> >> Do you guys have any advice how to achieve it . > > Maybe have a look at : http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ ? > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
