Expansion of Apache definitions
| From: | John Iliffe | Date: | Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:25:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Expansion of Apache definitions | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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I recently made a posting on the Apache users group regarding recovering
the client IP address using the $_SESSION['REMOTE_ADDR'] function in PHP.
I received the following caveat from another developer:
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You may want to update that.
Since 2.4, apache makes the distinction between the the two different
REMOTE_ADDR candidates: the peer making the TCP connection,
and the client making the HTTP request. In other words, the nearest
proxy and the end-user. The latter is of course very easy to spoof,
but is nevertheless the one most applications want.
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Is there any development underway in PHP to have both of these addresses
available in the $_SESSION global variable?
Regards,
John