Hi Michael, On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:21:14PM +0000, Michael Tinnion wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've very limited experience with HAProxy and I'm trying to get the > ForwardFor option to work but with no joy. > > > I've set the following in my 'listen' section > > > > option httpclose > option forwardfor indeed, that's the correct way to do it.
> and I have set the following in my tomcat (hosted by JBoss) configuration: > > > > maxKeepAliveRequests="1" > > > > According to everything I have read this should make HAProxy add the > X-Forwarded-For header to the requests. Unfortunately I am still not seeing > this and the client IP address in the request has been set to that of the > load balancer. Well, since almost everyone is using it, I don't really believe it does not work. Are you sure you have "mode http" in your "listen" section ? Also, how are you checking that the header is correctly added ? Maybe you just mis-wrote its name where you check it ? Regards, Willy