[COUCHDB-1377] support X-Forwarded-* headers in couch_httpd

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.1, 1.2
• Component/s: HTTP Interface
• Assignee: Randall Leeds
• Reporter: Randall Leeds
• Created: 09/Jan/12 02:54
• Updated: 02/Sep/18 06:36
• Resolved: 02/Sep/18 06:36

Description

X-Forwarded-For, as well as X-Forwarded-Proto and X-Forwarded-Ssl, are partially supported by the couch_httpd module. However, the couch_httpd_proxy module ignores these same configuration settings when it could manipulate the headers to pass more information upstream.

Issue Links

• supercedes: COUCHDB-1213 proxy with external api doesn't work