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Subject: Re: Custom log format
From: Elisiano Petrini <elisiano@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:28:32 +0100
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As per http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#x-headers
Apache set a X-Forwarded-For header with the IP address of the client.

Now, how you can read this from CouchDB I have no idea.

Cheers, Elisiano

On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 16:13 +0300, Anthony Ananich wrote:
> I was thinking on this as well, but here are also some disadvantages,
> for sample I have to track user's public IP address for identifying
> country of residence. That becomes impossible with proxying as far as
> I know.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Nils Breunese <N.Breunese@vpro.nl> wrote:
> > Anthony Ananich wrote:
> >
> >> CouchDB does not record logged in user, User Agent, etc. So I can
> >> configure AWStats for sure, but that will not give me a chance to get
> >> to know which browsers do users use. That's just one example.
> >
> > You could maybe use Apache httpd as a reverse proxy for CouchDB: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Apache_As_a_Reverse_Proxy
> >
> > Nils.