Hallo, Platonides, Du meintest am 28.05.12:
>> is it possible that a bad guy fakes his IP address when he creates a >> page? [...] > Kind of. If the spammer uses a proxy, and the proxy provides a > X-Forwarded-For header, with the IP of the client on behalf of which > it is forwarding the request (or more, if there were several proxy > hops), MediaWiki will use that IP instead, provided it trusts the > proxy. Your apache access_log will report the proxy in such case. > This is most interesting for the case where you have a reverse proxy > (such as squid or varnish) in front of your site. > A proxy is considered trusted if its ip appears on $wgSquidServers or > $wgSquidServersNoPurge. Thank you - I'll ask my provider. Now I know what to ask him ... Viele Gruesse! Helmut _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
