In AWS, and networking/http in gerneral, what is the X-Forwarded-For header used for? Think of an example where you have a user request that goes from user to your ELB to your EC2 instance.
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X-Forwarded-For head has the IP info of original sender, so when EC2 gets request from ELB, it knows original users/client IP, not just the internal IP of the ELB sending it the request.
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In AWS, and networking/http in gerneral, what is the X-Forwarded-For header used for? Think of an example where you have a user request that goes from user to your ELB to your EC2 instance.
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In AWS, and networking/http in gerneral, what is the X-Forwarded-For header used for? Think of an example where you have a user request that goes from user to your ELB to your EC2 instance.
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X-Forwarded-For head has the IP info of original sender, so when EC2 gets request from ELB, it knows original users/client IP, not just the internal IP of the ELB sending it the request.
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