Re: Behavior of realip module with this config

2017-02-10 Thread Paul Nickerson
now know how to test out a different configuration. Thank you for the help, Maxim! ~ Paul Nickerson -- *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE* The attached information is PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL and is intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If the reader of this message is not the

Re: Behavior of realip module with this config

2017-02-10 Thread Paul Nickerson
be a strangely configured client gateway / firewall / NAT / proxy that adds to X-Forwarded-For, but it can happen. I guess I am still confused. ~ Paul Nickerson -- *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE* The attached information is PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL and is intended only for the use of th

Behavior of realip module with this config

2017-02-09 Thread Paul Nickerson
.0.0.0/0, there is no IP that can meet this requirement. Am I correct in my analysis? http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_realip_module.html ~ Paul Nickerson -- *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE* The attached information is PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL and is intended only for the use of the address

Re: Where does $remote_addr come from?

2017-02-06 Thread Paul Nickerson
ng to determine this. But I was surprised to find there was no documentation or past forum posts saying whether this variable came from the TCP/IP or the HTTP headers. After that, my sense of technical discovery took over and kept me interested in the problem. ~ Paul Nickerson -- *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTIC

Re: Where does $remote_addr come from?

2017-02-03 Thread Paul Nickerson
ux system call. It is the address of the peer socket. I am going to read through socket(2) and the respective protocol man pages, but at this point we're outside of NGINX, and so the scope of this mailing list. Thank you again for your help. ~ Paul Nickerson -- *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE*

Where does $remote_addr come from?

2017-02-03 Thread Paul Nickerson
n track where that addr_text.data value is set. I thought it might be coming from addr_text in the code, but my experience with C is dated and limited. I wasn't able to figure out where addr_text.data is set. ~ Paul Nickerson -- *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE* The attached information is PRIVILEG

Where does $remote_addr come from?

2017-02-02 Thread Paul Nickerson
lient address". Currently, my best guess is that it's the source address field in the incoming TCP/IP packet's IPv4 internet header. Is this correct? Or, does it come from somewhere else? Relevant documentation: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#variables