Get user real IP when running BOCA with a reverse proxy #39
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Reference Issues
The proposed approach addresses the issue reported at #38.
What does this implement/fix?
This pull request includes a code fix to get the real IP of the user when running BOCA with a reverse proxy. If
REMOTE_ADDR
belongs to a list of trusted proxies (BOCA_TRUSTED_PROXIES
env var), then BOCA should consider that the real user IP is inHTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
.How to test it?
Other Comments
Feel free to suggest other approaches to address the problem.