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"Client IP address is forwarded to application as X-Forwarded-For" is the biggest news here. Previously, it cost $100 per month to have access to the Client IP
by ccollins 14y ago
"Client IP address is forwarded to application as X-Forwarded-For" is the biggest news here.
Previously, it cost $100 per month to have access to the Client IP over SSL, so any sort of geo-location was out of the question.
Insane prices for arbitrary things are why I left Heroku a few months ago and decided to custom build my servers on Linode.
- gemlogger 14y agoIsn't this just Heroku copying what cloudflare already has on offer?
- bgentry 14y agoThis is a standard HTTP Proxy header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For
- revelation 14y agoIn fact, the "X" indicates it is not a standard header. But yes, very common for proxies to pass on.