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ccollins on May 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing Better SSL for your Heroku App

"Client IP address is forwarded to application as X-Forwarded-For" is the biggest news here.

Previously, it cost $100 per month to have access to the Client IP over SSL, so any sort of geo-location was out of the question.

Insane prices for arbitrary things are why I left Heroku a few months ago and decided to custom build my servers on Linode.

gemlogger on May 4, 2012 [–]

Isn't this just Heroku copying what cloudflare already has on offer?

bgentry on May 4, 2012 | [–]

This is a standard HTTP Proxy header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For

revelation on May 4, 2012 | | [–]

In fact, the "X" indicates it is not a standard header. But yes, very common for proxies to pass on.

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