Hi,
We have Tomcat behind a load balancer. The servlet API and tomcat libraries
see the load balancer IP as the client IP.
I tried to write a simple valve which will extract the IP from HTTP header
X-Forwarded-For
and continue the valve chain using this IP as the client IP. This will be
the first valve in the chain, so everything will work as normal afterwards
including log files, IP filter valve, etc.
The problem I am facing, is when I try to set the remote IP on the request
from my valve, the code does nothing. This is the set method in the class
org.apache.catalina.connector.Request:
public void setRemoteAddr(String remoteAddr) {
// Not used
}
The variable is protected so I cannot access it directly from my code.
Is there any way to implement this Valve?
Is there anything already shipped in tomcat to extract the client IP from
the header?
I DO NOT want to write a servlet filter for various reasons, so I hope there
is a way to do it with a valve.
Any help appreciated.
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