TIP/WAS support of http header X-Forwarder-For (XFF)

Question & Answer

Question

Does the Tivoli Integrated Portal/WAS support the http header of X-Forwarder-For (XFF) using SNAT?

Cause

The X-Forwarded-For (XFF) HTTP header field is an industry standard for identifying the originating IP address of a client connecting to a web server through an HTTP proxy, using Secure Network Address Translation (SNAT)

Answer

Tivoli Integrated Portal development has not done any testing with that header, but after looking over the technical specifications for XFF (X-Forwarder-For), they don't see any issues using that header, since the XFF header will be inserted at the proxy level.

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Document Information

More support for:
Tivoli Components

Software version:
2.2, 2.1

Document number:
222517

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21628396

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