Varnish is not always adding X-Forwarded-For

[Kervin L. Pierre]

Did you get an answer to this question?  I'm running into the same issue.

After piping "POSTs" to get around another issues, we noticed that X-forwarded-For is not being returned to the backend server.

Is there a way to guarantee that x-forwarded-for is present on backend requests, even on pipes?

Best regards,
Kervin


Adevsoft Inc
Business Software Development
http://adevsoft.com/

From: varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org [mailto:varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org] On Behalf Of Doug Eubanks
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:18 AM
To: varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
Subject: Varnish is not always adding X-Forwarded-For

We need Varnish to always add X-Forwarded-For so that we can see the visitor's IP when they submit a poll answer.

We have this setup, but we are still seeing about half of our requests not include the X-Forwarded-For header.

sub vcl_pipe {
        set bereq.http.X-Forwarded-For = req.http.X-Forwarded-For;
        set bereq.http.X-Forwarded-For = regsub(bereq.http.X-Forwarded-For, "$", ", ");
        set bereq.http.X-Forwarded-For = regsub(bereq.http.X-Forwarded-For, "$", client.ip);
        set req.http.connection = "close";
}

Sincerely,
Doug Eubanks
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