I cloned the repo, modified the doc section, and committed.

First time doing this on github, so if I've done something backwards, or 
broken any code etiquette, I stand to be corrected. ;)

On Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 11:38:23 AM UTC-4, Greg Sutcliffe wrote:
>
> On 17 July 2016 at 16:22, adiran <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Ok, this makes a little more sense.  So in an environment with many 
>> smart-proxies, the IP of each one would need to be included in this regexp?
>>
>> I just assumed that foreman would take care of accepting X-Forwarded-For 
>> from smart-proxy IPs which are registered, since it already knows about 
>> them.
>>
>
> I'm away from my desk, so I'm working from memory, but I think this 
> predates the smart-proxy-auth system that came in later for validating 
> things like ENC requests from valid proxies. The main issue there is that 
> the proxy-auth relies on validating the names in the SSL certificate -  
> templates usually aren't acquired over https, so this wouldn't work here. 
> It might be possible to adapt / re-use some of those ideas though - I do 
> agree that it's non-intuitive compared to how ENC/reports works.
>  
>
>> This setting could use a little more detail in the manual, glad you 
>> recall.
>>
>
> Sure, feel free - 
> https://github.com/theforeman/theforeman.org/blob/gh-pages/_includes/manuals/1.12/3.5.2_configuration_options.md
>  
> :)
>
> Greg
>

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