On 23 Nov 2011, at 8:22 PM, Nick Kew wrote:
This has the additional advantage of *breaking* existing c->remote_ip
references and forcing the module author to choose which they mean
for
their purposes (most would refer to the authenticated address).
This makes more sense to me, +1.
An interesting take on it!
But use of remote_ip and remote_addr goes further than that.
Changing their semantics in CGI (and its imitators from PHP to
mod_rewrite) would *silently* break apps, so a firm -1 to that.
And divorcing conn->remote_ip from the CGI/etc gets fearsomely
confusing!
There is no option to silently break any app, the only way to get this
functionality is for the administrator to actively enable a module
like mod_remoteip (or similar module depending on your needs). In the
word of load balancers, this behaviour is already well understood and
supported.
Regards,
Graham
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