[ZOOKEEPER-4851] Honor X-Forwarded-For optionally in IPAuthenticationProvider

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.9.2
• Fix Version/s: 3.10.0, 3.9.3
• Component/s: server
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Andor Molnar
• Reporter: Andor Molnar
• Created: 20/Aug/24 17:54
• Updated: 24/Oct/24 20:09
• Resolved: 03/Sep/24 20:08

Description

Introduce a feature flag in IPAuthenticationProvider to toggle reading of X-Forwarded-For header from HTTP requests, because there're some use cases when it's not needed.

Issue Links

• is related to: ZOOKEEPER-4639 Provide auth support for admin server APIs
• is related to: ZOOKEEPER-4570 Admin server API for taking snapshot and stream out the data
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2181