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Harshal Patil
Harshal Patil

Reputation: 21000

Which header should be used X-Forwarded-For or Forwarded?

There are two headers to handle request forwarding. First is X-Forwarded-For and second is Forwarded.

Which one should I use? X-Forwarded-For is a de-facto whereas Forwarded is an RFC-7239 standard.

There are no specific guidelines in the specification and I could not observe any general trend about this in the web development scope.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 737

Answers (1)

benzkji
benzkji

Reputation: 1867

It seems nobody is interested in Forwarded, still not in 2019. I would use it, but it's hard, as many tools and frameworks lack support...for example, today, the Django Framework (issue and discussion here) is still using X-Forwarded-XY headers, to detect original IP/Host, etc. And there is no hurry ;-)

In the long term, Forwarded will probably be adopted and the new standard, so, if you can, go with it. I would.

Upvotes: 2

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