Client address is the right-most untrusted X-Forwarded-For entry (closes #144)
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From a peer in TRUSTED_PROXIES, clientIP took the left-most
X-Forwarded-For entry, which the client writes itself behind a proxy
that appends to the header, so a client could choose the address the
rate limit counts and the request log records. It now walks the entries
from the right past trusted proxies and takes the first that is not
one. An entry written as an address with a port is read as that
address; with only trusted entries, or one that is not an address at
all, it uses the peer. Every X-Forwarded-For header line is read.
X-Real-IP is read only when there is no X-Forwarded-For entry.
README.md Settings says which entry is taken, and the comment in
configs/nginx.conf no longer says the backend takes the first entry.

Model: opus-5-5
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2026-10-18 22:03:02 +00:00
parent e43a710114
commit 6eb44afcad
5 changed files with 149 additions and 19 deletions
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@@ -25,10 +25,16 @@ import (
const (
// loopbackPeer is a remote address inside the trusted-proxy allowlist.
loopbackPeer = "127.0.0.1:5000"
// loopbackIP is the address of loopbackPeer, which ClientIP returns
// when it uses the peer.
loopbackIP = "127.0.0.1"
// forwardedIP is the client address presented via X-Forwarded-For.
forwardedIP = "203.0.113.7"
// realIP is the client address presented via X-Real-IP.
realIP = "203.0.113.9"
// appendedIP is the X-Forwarded-For entry a trusted proxy appended
// after the entries the client wrote.
appendedIP = "198.51.100.7"
)
func mustPrefixes(t *testing.T, cidrs ...string) []netip.Prefix {
@@ -85,10 +91,35 @@ func clientIPCases() []clientIPCase {
want: forwardedIP,
},
{
name: "trusted proxy uses left-most of chain",
remoteAddr: "10.1.2.3:5000",
xff: forwardedIP + ", 10.1.2.3",
want: forwardedIP,
name: "trusted proxy uses right-most of chain",
remoteAddr: loopbackPeer,
xff: "203.0.113.9, " + appendedIP,
want: appendedIP,
},
{
name: "trusted proxy entries are skipped from the right",
remoteAddr: loopbackPeer,
xff: "203.0.113.9, 10.0.0.5",
want: "203.0.113.9",
},
{
name: "chain of only trusted proxies uses peer",
remoteAddr: loopbackPeer,
xff: "10.0.0.5, 10.1.2.3",
want: loopbackIP,
},
{
name: "entry that is not an address uses peer",
remoteAddr: loopbackPeer,
xff: "203.0.113.9, unknown",
want: loopbackIP,
},
{
name: "x-real-ip ignored when forwarded-for has entries",
remoteAddr: loopbackPeer,
xff: "10.0.0.5",
xRealIP: realIP,
want: loopbackIP,
},
{
name: "trusted proxy falls back to x-real-ip",
@@ -117,7 +148,7 @@ func clientIPCases() []clientIPCase {
name: "trusted proxy with garbage header uses peer",
remoteAddr: loopbackPeer,
xff: "not-an-ip",
want: "127.0.0.1",
want: loopbackIP,
},
}
}
@@ -148,6 +179,47 @@ func TestClientIP(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// TestClientIPReadsEveryForwardedForLine checks that an entry a proxy
// adds as an X-Forwarded-For line of its own is read, and the line the
// client sent before it is not taken.
func TestClientIPReadsEveryForwardedForLine(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
header := http.Header{}
header.Add("X-Forwarded-For", "203.0.113.9")
header.Add("X-Forwarded-For", appendedIP)
got := middleware.ClientIP(loopbackPeer, header,
mustPrefixes(t, "127.0.0.1/32"))
if got != appendedIP {
t.Errorf("ClientIP() = %q, want %q", got, appendedIP)
}
}
// TestClientIPReadsAddressWithPort checks that an X-Forwarded-For entry
// written as an address with a port is read as that address, both for
// the trust check and as the result.
func TestClientIPReadsAddressWithPort(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
trusted := mustPrefixes(t, "127.0.0.1/32", "10.0.0.0/8")
for xff, want := range map[string]string{
"203.0.113.9, " + appendedIP + ":5000": appendedIP,
"203.0.113.9, [2001:db8::1]:443": "2001:db8::1",
"203.0.113.9, 10.0.0.5:5000": "203.0.113.9",
} {
header := http.Header{}
header.Set("X-Forwarded-For", xff)
got := middleware.ClientIP(loopbackPeer, header, trusted)
if got != want {
t.Errorf("X-Forwarded-For %q: ClientIP() = %q, want %q",
xff, got, want)
}
}
}
func TestSecurityHeaders(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()