Simon Willison’s Weblog

mod_rpaf for Apache. A more secure alternative to Django’s equivalent middleware: sets the REMOTE_ADDR of incoming requests from whitelisted load balancers to the X-Forwarded-For header, without any risk that if the load balancers are missing attackers could abuse it to spoof their IP addresses.

# 24th June 2008, 5:02 pm / django, middleware, apache, rpaf, modrpaf, security, xforwardedfor, http, load-balancing