26 Mar
2014
26 Mar
'14
3:55 p.m.
Michael Carlino (RIT Student) wrote:
I just now pursued http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt [1], and I see that there is a patch that allows stunnel to do an initial modification to the HTTP request to insert a X-Forwarded-For header. This sounds like what I need to do! I am going to look for that patch. I hope the source code for the patch is available.
In fact what PROXY protocol provides is an elegant solution to achieve the same goal that used to be achieved with the ugly X-Forwarded-For hack. The PROXY protocol does not modify HTTP headers. In fact it can be used with protocols other than HTTP.
Mike