X-Forwarded-For question

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Dr. Who
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The release notes for version 8.x state it includes "Recognition of real visitor host in the X-Forwarded-For field in IIS logs". Per my earlier question / issue, you suggested using the Microsoft Advanced Logging module and replacing the "c-ip" with "x-forwarded-for" in it. How does this fix relate to that item?
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Michael
Version 8.0 fixes the issue, you can use it to analyze your logs and get report on correct visitor IPs without need to replace the c-ip field.

The original problem appeared because the c-ip field contained the IP of the load balancer, while the real visitor IP was stored in the X-Forwarded-For field. It is a common scenario, so we added support for it in version 8.0. If there is the X-Forwarded-For field, the new version uses value from it as visitor IP instead of the c-ip field. It works automatically, it's not necessary to change any settings.