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diff --git a/www/mod_extract_forwarded_ap13/pkg-descr b/www/mod_extract_forwarded_ap13/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index a2022ec8ef1f..000000000000 --- a/www/mod_extract_forwarded_ap13/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -mod_extract_forwarded hooks itself into Apache's header parsing phase and looks -for the X-Forwarded-For header which some (most?) proxies add to the proxied -HTTP requests. It extracts the IP from the X-Forwarded-For and modifies the -connection data so to the rest of Apache the request looks like it came from -that IP rather than the proxy IP. - -mod_extract_forwarded can be dangerous for host based access control because -X-Forwarded-For is easily spoofed. Because of this you can configure which -proxies you trust or don't trust. - -WWW: http://web.warhound.org/mod_extract_forwarded/ - -- Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> |