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diff --git a/www/mod_extract_forwarded/pkg-descr b/www/mod_extract_forwarded/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a1f0912373d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/mod_extract_forwarded/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +mod_extract_forwarded hooks itself into Apache's header parsing phase and looks +for the X-Forwarded-For header which some (most?) proxies add to the proxied +HTTP requests. It extracts the IP from the X-Forwarded-For and modifies the +connection data so to the rest of Apache the request looks like it came from +that IP rather than the proxy IP. + +mod_extract_forwarded can be dangerous for host based access control because +X-Forwarded-For is easily spoofed. Because of this you can configure which +proxies you trust or don't trust. + +WWW: http://web.systhug.com/mod_extract_forwarded/ + +- Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> |