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[jira] [Updated] (COUCHDB-1421) Wrong X-Forwarded-For address chosen as "peer"

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1421?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Nathan Vander Wilt updated COUCHDB-1421:
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    Summary: Wrong X-Forwarded-For address chosen as "peer"  (was: Wrong X-Forwarded-For address chosen as "peer"?)
    
> Wrong X-Forwarded-For address chosen as "peer"
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>                 Key: COUCHDB-1421
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1421
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Nathan Vander Wilt
>
> I noticed that in the Mochiweb code, it uses the last item of the X-Forwarded-For list as the peer:
> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/src/mochiweb/mochiweb_request.erl#L82
> But shouldn't this snag the *first* item of the list instead? http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-petersson-forwarded-for-02#section-5.2 says "the first for-parameter will disclose the user agent where the request first was made" — the user agent is what I'd want as an app developer, not the second-nearest proxy.

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