Capture clientIPAddress

[meher]

Hi,

I have a requirement like I need to capture IP Address of client and send it as a header to the backend APIs. Can some one please help with how to approach for this.

Thanks
Meher.

[thibaultcha]

@meher Hi,

Maybe have a look at this post:

How to Forward Client's request IP

Hi, This is a typical behavior/drawback of many reverse-proxies and load-balancers. Luckily for you, and as one would expect, there exist ways to circumvent them! Retrieving the client IP in your API First and foremost, Kong will set the X-Forwarded-For header for you since 0.11.0. You can use its value in your upstream services to retrieve the client IP. This is, I believe, the answer you are looking for. But let’s take a deeper dive here, because there are other important areas around this …

And let us know if it helps.

[meher]

Thanks much. Looks like it helps me.