homelab/traefik
1
0
Fork 0
Code Activity

doc: add note about remoteaddr strategy

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
mpl 2023-02-09 17:34:06 +01:00 • committed by GitHub
parent 0503253cfe
commit 780936eff9
No known key found for this signature in database
GPG key ID: 4AEE18F83AFDEB23
3 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

2
docs/content/middlewares/http/ratelimit.md
View file

@ -262,6 +262,8 @@ If none are set, the default is to use the request's remote address field (as an
The `ipStrategy` option defines two parameters that configures how Traefik determines the client IP: `depth`, and `excludedIPs`.
!!! important "As a middleware, rate-limiting happens before the actual proxying to the backend takes place. In addition, the previous network hop only gets appended to `X-Forwarded-For` during the last stages of proxying, i.e. after it has already passed through rate-limiting. Therefore, during rate-limiting, as the previous network hop is not yet present in `X-Forwarded-For`, it cannot be found and/or relied upon."
##### `ipStrategy.depth`
The `depth` option tells Traefik to use the `X-Forwarded-For` header and select the IP located at the `depth` position (starting from the right).