Re: Some sites don't like X-Forwarded-For: unknown

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:24:42 +1000

Hmm..

0.0.0.0? May be a more obvious choice.

D

Arjan de Vet wrote:

> I got a complaint that http://www.low-spirit.de/ gave a "No Object Data"
> error message. After some digging into HTTP headers I found out that this
> site does not like the following header:
>
> X-Forwarded-For: unknown
>
> which you get when using 'forwarded_for off'. The server immediately closes
> the connection without any message.
>
> I solved it by replacing "unknown" in http.c with "127.0.0.1". A more
> sophisticated way would be using random IP numbers :-).
>
> Arjan

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Received on Thu Feb 19 1998 - 18:30:11 MST

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