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Mohammad KolahdouzanFeb 23, 2009 4:01 pm 
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Mohammad KolahdouzanMar 5, 2009 7:24 am 
Igor SysoevMar 5, 2009 7:28 am 
Mohammad KolahdouzanMar 5, 2009 9:17 am 
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Mohammad KolahdouzanApr 19, 2009 9:43 pm 
Subject:Re: nginx not setting REMOTE_ADDR properly?
From:Igor Sysoev (is@rambler-co.ru)
Date:Mar 5, 2009 7:28:50 am
List:ru.sysoev.nginx

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:52:50PM -0800, Mohammad Kolahdouzan wrote:

My nginx is getting requests through a (NetScaler) load balancer, and
$remote_addr is returning the load balancer's IP and not the real user's IP
(which the load balancer sets as REMOTE_ADDR in the header). Any other attribute
I should use to get the real user's IP?

You should use $http_remote_addr and set:

server { underscores_in_headers on;

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