Ugg. Yeah; we should actually have a complimentary version
that takes request_req as the param, not conn_rec.

ap_get_remote_host_r()??

Ugly.

On Sep 11, 2014, at 11:28 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> However, the API is not going to make this trivial to fix.
>  
> ap_get_remote_host is connection-based.  And that is what mod_authz_host
> is currently relying upon.
>  
> It seems that there needs to be a way for mod_remoteip to override the 
> existing behavior, perhaps ap_set_remote_host(), that will cache the
> request-based on for the lifetime of the request pool.  In the request
> pool cleanup, ap_set_remote_host(c, NULL) would clear that overridden
> request-based host, popping the value back to the cached c-> fields.
>  
> There is also the issue of the timing of setting the scoreboard record.
> All three issues are intertwined.
>  
>  
> --------- Original Message ---------
> Subject: Re: mod_status: Apache 2.4 incorrect IP (proxy, not useragent_ip) on 
> server-status page
> From: "Jim Jagielski" <[email protected]>
> Date: 9/11/14 9:46 am
> To: [email protected]
> 
> Yeah, the more I think about it, ap_get_remote_host() is
> currently broken wrt how it handles useragent_ip and client_ip.
> 
> Will likely try to patch this on trunk sometime today...
> 
> On Sep 11, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Martynas Bendorius <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, we may re-phrase it like that, if we'd like to fix it in apache source 
> > (and not documentation) :) Currently ap_get_remote_host in server/core.c 
> > doesn't return useragent_ip, and instead of it we get conn->client_ip.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Martynas Bendorius
> > 
> > On 9/11/14 4:21 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> >> isn't the question rather "What should ap_get_remote_host()
> >> return?"?
> >> 
> >> On Sep 11, 2014, at 8:17 AM, Martynas Bendorius <[email protected]> 
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hello,
> >>> 
> >>> Would it be possible to change the documentation of mod_remoteip for 2.4 
> >>> (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_remoteip.html), and get "is 
> >>> reported by mod_status" removed from the page? As it leds Apache 
> >>> customers to believe that it will report a real (useragent) IP instead of 
> >>> a proxy one in server-status page. useragent_ip is not even available in 
> >>> scoreboard, which is used by mod_status, so it's not available for 
> >>> mod_status.
> >>> 
> >>> This has been already discussed here: 
> >>> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55886
> >>> 
> >>> Thank you!
> >>> 
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Martynas Bendorius
> >>> 
> >> 
> > 

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