Posted by Philip Ronan on 11/15/69 11:22
"varungupta" wrote:
> Hi Group members !
>
> I want to know about a method for detecting client's IP which is
> running behind a proxy server.
> I have tried functions available with PHP core but they are returning
> the address of proxy server not of the client's machinel.
> Is there any way to get the desired results.
>
Some proxies add an "X-Forwarded-For" header to forwarded requests. If
you're running PHP as an Apache module, then it should be possible to
retrieve this with the apache_request_headers function.
If the proxy doesn't bother providing this information, then there isn't
much you can do.
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