in vcl_recv put following. remove req.http.X-Forwarded-For; set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = client.ip;
Thaks On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Frank Helmschrott <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using varnish-2.1.4 SVN 5447M and wonder how HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR > gets treatened by varnish. > > In my VCL (which i partly copied from elsewhere) there are some lines > that i found in many VCLs around the net: > > -- snip -- > > # Add a unique header containing the client address > remove req.http.X-Forwarded-For; > set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = req.http.rlnclientipaddr; > > --/snip-- > > I think this should do what i need: set a HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header > containing the real client IP-Address and add it to the requests that > hit the backend. These lines are within sub vcl_recv. > > I need the Client IP at the backend for some statistic stuff (ip based > timeouts). > > Unfortunately i don't even get an empty HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header. > It basically doesn't exist. I tried commenting these lines out and > also tried client.ip instead of req.http.rlnclientipaddr; as i found > this somewhere else - i don't know which the correct syntax is. > > Is there anything else wrong? Or maybe some switch in my varnish > version that i need to set to make HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR appear for my > backend? > > Thanks for helping > > -- > Frank > > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc >
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