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Bug 12690 - wfGetForwardedFor (X-Forwarded-For) doesn't always works
wfGetForwardedFor (X-Forwarded-For) doesn't always works
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User login and signup (Other open bugs)
1.11.x
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: patch, patch-need-review
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2008-01-19 13:59 UTC by Petya Kohts
Modified: 2013-03-13 10:39 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Petya Kohts 2008-01-19 13:59:03 UTC
On my installation mediawiki doesn't correctly determines
X-Forwarded-For header and displays IP address of Squid Server
insted of actual client IP address.

Apache 2.0.54
PHP 5.2.1

Here's the patch which corrects the error for my installation:

--- ProxyTools.php.orig 2007-06-29 05:19:14.000000000 +0400
+++ ProxyTools.php      2008-01-19 12:50:10.000000000 +0300
@@ -15,12 +15,19 @@
                $set = apache_request_headers();
                $index = 'X-Forwarded-For';
                $index2 = 'Client-ip';
-       } else {
-               // Subject to spoofing with headers like X_Forwarded_For
-               $set = $_SERVER;
-               $index = 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR';
-               $index2 = 'CLIENT-IP';
+
+           if( isset( $set[$index] ) ) {
+               return $set[$index];
+           } else if( isset( $set[$index2] ) ) {
+               return $set[$index2];
+           }
        }
+
+       // Subject to spoofing with headers like X_Forwarded_For
+       $set = $_SERVER;
+       $index = 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR';
+       $index2 = 'CLIENT-IP';
+
        #Try a couple of headers
        if( isset( $set[$index] ) ) {
                return $set[$index];
Comment 1 Andre Klapper 2013-03-13 10:39:47 UTC
Hi Petya! Sorry that nobody has taken a look at this report yet and given feedback.

Thanks for your patch!

You are welcome to use Developer access
  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access
to submit this as a Git branch directly into Gerrit:
  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Tutorial

Putting your branch in Git makes it easier to review it quickly.
Thanks again! We appreciate your contribution.

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