[Box-Admins] Re: I need Help (was Re: Squeak Wiki Problem)

[Jochen F. Rick]

Interesting. Why would it have two x-forwarded-for addresses? In other 
words, what is the meaning of the other address? Which address should be 
used?

Peace and Luck!

Jeff



On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:16:45PM -0600, Ken Causey wrote:
> I have been debugging the reported problems accessing the
> wiki.squeak.org wiki for those behind a proxy.  I have tracked it down
> to the implementation of HttpRequest>>initProxyForwarding in the image.
> It assumes that if an x-forwarded for header exists that it is a single
> IP address.  This appears to be a poor assumption.  For example:
> 
> x-forwarded-for: 74.141.6.178, 62.90.138.162
> 
> I have not so far been able to track down documentation to confirm
> whether or not this is 'officially' valid.  Nonetheless Swiki should
> probably not fail when this assumption is invalid.
> 
> Ken



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