On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 09:19:34AM +0000, Neil wrote: > Another http proxy 'pound' passes on this information by added http headers > similar to x-forwarded-for. > > It would,imho, be great to be able to take arbitary headers from client and > mangle and pass them on to backend servers or use in acls or put the in > state tables
But this is already supported. I understand that David's application does not use HTTP if he wants to extend the PROXY protocol. PROXY is mostly useless for HTTP, since HTTP is much more flexible. Willy