On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jimb Esser <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Monday, August 13, 2012 3:01:38 PM UTC-7, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>>
>> Good to know. I probably don't need it on the node side though. It's
>> mostly just for logs, which stud can write. Am I missing a need for the
>> real IP in node?
>>
>
> If the stud logs are enough, and you don't use the IP for application
> logic, then there's probably no need for it in node.  We need things like
> being able to ban abusive users by IP.  Also, 90% of the interesting
> actions a user does on our service happens over the WebSocket link, so we
> want it for logging as well.
>

Yes for us it'll only be a minimal percentage, so not a huge deal.

If stud can get the IP via the first few bytes, why can't it then just add
an X-Forwarded-For header when proxying to node?

Matt.

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