IIRC, Mediawiki should pickup, and correctly apply the IP of the original user if you pass it along via XFF (X-Forwarded-For) headers.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jim Safley <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to spoof the user IP address during action=edit? It > sounds like an unsavory question, but let me explain. Let's say an > anonymous user edits a page in my application, which, in turn, uses a > MediaWiki API client to make the necessary token/edit requests. The > resulting user is not the IP address of the anonymous user, rather > it's the IP address of the API client. As a result, every anonymous > user that uses my application is truly, irrevocably anonymous. This is > why I wonder if it's possible to send an arbitrary user IP address > along with the edit request. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
