Chuck Swiger-2 wrote:
On Jun 8, 2007, at 1:43 PM, shakeshuck wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a proxy server using privoxy/ipfilter/ipnat.
> If I set up
> ipnat.conf with an rdr from the incoming interface to 127.0.0.1, I
> can get
> traffic flowing through privoxy.
> What I want it to do (contrary to most setups) is to pass the
> clients' IP
> address to the webserver. At the moment, the web server is
> reporting the
> proxy's address.
Of course it is. :-)
If you redirect or otherwise have clients connect via a proxy, then
the requests going out to the webservers are going to come from the
proxy server. It is likely that privoxy has controls for the X-
Forwarded-For: header, which are normally used by proxies to indicate
the client machine which made the original request.
--
-Chuck
Yes, that's what the -hide-forwarded-for-headers action does. After some rejigging of the action files, I realised I could test this through the web interface in privoxy. X-Forwarded-For is now being set properly.
In the end it appears my confusion lies with php - the suggested parameter to use is REMOTE_ADDR, but this displays the proxy address, not the client. Oh well. Thanks for the input. :-)
