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When using Morgan as the access log writer, in a Vanilla server, use this snippet to respect the x-forwarded-for header as the original client's ip address.
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morgan-x-forwarded-for.js
morgan.token('remote-addr', function (req, res) {
var ffHeaderValue = req.headers['x-forwarded-for'];
return ffHeaderValue || req.connection.remoteAddress;
});
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Thanks!

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jtktam commented Jun 30, 2020

thank you for this tip

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