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Discussion on: Explaining Load Balancers

 
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Slavius

Hi Nawinkmr,

there is no official HTTP protocol extension to send this information to the nodes, however a very common way is to add new HTTP headers like X-Forwarded-For, X-Forwarded-Host, X-Forwarded-Proto, X-Real-IP and X-Client-IP as this information is very often vital on the nodes. Nodes then have to understand this on an application level. More in Nginx resources here: nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/top...