On 2 June 2010 18:11, Joshua Paine <jos...@letterblock.com> wrote:

> Only 127.0.0.1 is privileged, right? So can we just not trust
> X-Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1 no matter who says it, and not worry if
> X-Forwarded-For is abused otherwise?
>

No.  Fossil keys its login cookies off the user's IP address. If the user
can provide X-Forwarded-For, then stealing a cookie becomes a lot more
useful.
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