72 """Returns real IP of the request. Since not all proxies set all the HTTP
73 headers and incoming headers can be faked it may happen that the IP cannot
74 be determined correctly.
76 .. sidebar:: :py:obj:`flask.Request.remote_addr`
78 SearXNG uses Werkzeug's ProxyFix_ (with it default ``x_for=1``).
80 This function tries to get the remote IP in the order listed below,
81 additional some tests are done and if inconsistencies or errors are
82 detected, they are logged.
84 The remote IP of the request is taken from (first match):
86 - X-Forwarded-For_ header
87 - `X-real-IP header <https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/1237#issuecomment-1147564516>`__
88 - :py:obj:`flask.Request.remote_addr`
91 https://werkzeug.palletsprojects.com/middleware/proxy_fix/
94 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-Forwarded-For
98 forwarded_for = request.headers.get(
"X-Forwarded-For")
99 real_ip = request.headers.get(
'X-Real-IP')
100 remote_addr = request.remote_addr
105 if not forwarded_for:
110 forwarded_for = [x.strip()
for x
in forwarded_for.split(
',')]
111 x_for: int = cfg[
'real_ip.x_for']
112 forwarded_for = forwarded_for[-min(len(forwarded_for), x_for)]
117 if forwarded_for
and real_ip
and forwarded_for != real_ip:
118 logger.warning(
"IP from X-Real-IP (%s) is not equal to IP from X-Forwarded-For (%s)", real_ip, forwarded_for)
120 if forwarded_for
and remote_addr
and forwarded_for != remote_addr:
122 "IP from WSGI environment (%s) is not equal to IP from X-Forwarded-For (%s)", remote_addr, forwarded_for
125 if real_ip
and remote_addr
and real_ip != remote_addr:
126 logger.warning(
"IP from WSGI environment (%s) is not equal to IP from X-Real-IP (%s)", remote_addr, real_ip)
128 request_ip = forwarded_for
or real_ip
or remote_addr
or '0.0.0.0'