Reverse Proxy Misconfigurations · passage 5 of 9
Text · Reverse Proxy Misconfigurations/README.md
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Open this passage on GitHub`X-Real-IP` is another custom HTTP header, commonly used by Nginx and some other proxies, to forward the original client IP address. Rather than including a chain of IP addresses like X-Forwarded-For, X-Real-IP contains only a single IP: the address of the client connecting to the first proxy.
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