Comments on: Rails remote IP address from behind a proxy

Comments on: Rails remote IP address from behind a proxy http://bluescripts.net/2009/03/rails-remote-ip-address-from-behind-a-proxy/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:47:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Birm http://bluescripts.net/2009/03/rails-remote-ip-address-from-behind-a-proxy/comment-page-1/#comment-4103 Birm Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:10:39 +0000 http://bluescripts.net/2009/03/rails-remote-ip-address-from-behind-a-proxy/#comment-4103 This works perfectly for me on Slicehost. One small change I made to make localhost a bit more friendly was: request.env['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] || request.remote_ip() Otherwise, localhost returns null. This works perfectly for me on Slicehost. One small change I made to make localhost a bit more friendly was:

request.env['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] || request.remote_ip()

Otherwise, localhost returns null.

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