I use this in my code -- I run my apps at foo.heroku.com with whatever
the ghetto SSL option is, so YMMV.
def remote_ip
if forwarded = request.env["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]
forwarded.split(",").first
elsif addr = request.env["REMOTE_ADDR"]
addr
end
end
-pvh
On Oct 1, 4:17 pm, Paul Cortens <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am looking at the following headers in my Heroku apps. Not all of
> them get set. All of them can be faked (as far as I know).
>
> request.env['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']
> request.remote_ip
> request.env['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']
> request.env['REMOTE_ADDR']
>
> Paul
>
> On Sep 28, 2:45 am, Josh K <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Guys,
>
> > We have a web app deployed on Heroku which requires ip address logging
> > of each request, but we noticed that the ip address is always a
> > 10.*.*.* address (local) instead of a valid address from the
> > interwebs. After reading a little into this I found out that this may
> > be due Amazon LBS and there may be a box config work around available,
> > although I am not 100% sure on this.
>
> > Can anyone at Heroku tell me if there is any way to get a requests ip
> > address, and if not currently, if there are plans to enable this
> > functionality?
>
> > Many Thanks,
>
> > Josh
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