you can acquire the local IP (%A) and remote IP (%a) if you implement AccessLogValve http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/catalina/docs/api/org/apache/catalina/valves/AccessLogValve.html
M- This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice Yarrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 4:23 PM Subject: obtain X-Forwarded-for: client-IP-address in access logs > Hello Tomcat community > > I have tomcat (5.0.28) running behind pound (2.1.3) > reverse-proxy-load-balancer. > > This is a very effective setup, as I have pound also fronting apache and > mongrel-rails > clusters. > > Question: > Pound adds the following to its request to backend servers: > X-Forwarded-for: client-IP-address > > I would like to be able to obtain this client-IP address in the tomcat > access logs. > I tried all available formats (%a, %A, %b, %B, etc.,etc.) for the > logger pattern, > but of course, none produced the client IP address placed in the request by > Pound. > > I could, of course, grep through the Pound log output which, by default, > winds > up on /var/log/messages, but would rather just be able to see this in the > tomcat access log. > > How could I, say, derive my own logger class and capture this header > info that > pound places in the request to backend server ?? > > Is there a simpler way ? Am I unaware of a direct way to do this ? > > Maurice Yarrow > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
