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x-real-ip no longer has the client IP address, is always "unix:" - Cloudflare Developers
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x-real-ip no longer has the client IP address, is always "unix:"
Title says it all
- I have some middleware that needs to send the client IP in a payload which started erroring with 400s since last night
. When I check the logs I can see the
x-real-ip
x-real-ip
headers on these requests are always
"unix:"
"unix:"
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