Proxy_pass and remote_addr

Server NGINX
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Good evening,

I know I’m not the first to ask - but I can’t seem to find an answer
on this mailing list, hence yet another question regarding passing
remote_addr.

I’m proxying IIS 6.0 (with a caching nginx) which unfortunately can’t
handle accepting X-Forwarded-For and the likes. The application I’m
running is so much enterprise that even thinking about implementing
support for XFF would cost gazillions of dollars :frowning: I’ve been playing
around with trying to overwrite remote_addr with the ‘current’ one but
unfortunately haven’t found a way.

Is it possible to pass a client ip to a proxy backend through
remote_addr (and not setting your own X-*)?

Thanks,
Johan
Bergström

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Hello!

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:18:51PM +0200, Johan Bergström wrote:

around with trying to overwrite remote_addr with the ‘current’ one but
unfortunately haven’t found a way.

Is it possible to pass a client ip to a proxy backend through
remote_addr (and not setting your own X-*)?

No.

But X-Forwarded-For support for IIS should be available, even for
6.0.

Maxim D.