It's strange as I've never seen it before in a list of usable cgi.variables.
Did a quick search on Google and turned up this which is interesting:
zackmsg said on Jun 17, 2002 at 3:19 PM :
Behind a firewall's proxy server, I have found "CGI.HTTP_X_Forwarded_For" to reveal the User's actual IP Address rather than the proxy server's IP when using "CGI.Remote_Addr"
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/Expressions5.htm
Andrew.
> So Andrew....does the CGI.HTTP_X_Forwarded_For give the IP of the
> computer behind a proxy server??
>
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> came across this cgi.variable the other day, not sure if this helps or
> not but:
>
> ColdFusion with Proxy detection:
>
> <cfif CGI.HTTP_X_Forwarded_For EQ "">
> <cfset ipaddress=CGI.Remote_Addr>
> <cfset a=1>
> <cfelse>
> <cfset ipaddress=CGI.HTTP_X_Forwarded_For>
> <cfset a=2>
> </cfif>
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