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Document why REMOTE_ADD may not be the user's IP address
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Berker Peksag 2015-05-22 05:01:21 +03:00
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@ -111,6 +111,21 @@ Gunicorn may come from untrusted proxies or directly from clients since the
application may be tricked into serving SSL-only content over an insecure
connection.
Gunicorn v19 introduced a breaking change concerning how ``REMOTE_ADDR`` is
handled. Previous to Gunicorn v19 this was set to the value of
``X-Forwarded-For`` if recieved from a trusted proxy. However, this was not in
compliance with `RFC 3875 CGI Version 1.1 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875>`_
which is why the ``REMOTE_ADDR`` is now the IP address of **the proxy** and
**not the actual user**. You should instead configure Nginx to send the user's
IP address through the ``X-Forwarded-For`` header like this::
...
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
...
It is also worth noting that the ``REMOTE_ADDR`` will be completely empty if you
bind Gunicorn to a unix socket and not a tcp host:port tuple.
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