forwarded

Parse HTTP X-Forwarded-For header

Installation

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry. Installation is done using the npm install command:

$ npm install forwarded

API

var forwarded = require('forwarded')

forwarded(req)

var addresses = forwarded(req)

Parse the X-Forwarded-For header from the request. Returns an array of the addresses, including the socket address for the req, in reverse order (i.e. index 0 is the socket address and the last index is the furthest address, typically the end-user).

Testing

$ npm test

License

MIT

0.2.0 / 2021-05-31

• Use req.socket over deprecated req.connection

0.1.2 / 2017-09-14

• perf: improve header parsing
• perf: reduce overhead when no X-Forwarded-For header

0.1.1 / 2017-09-10

• Fix trimming leading / trailing OWS
• perf: hoist regular expression

0.1.0 / 2014-09-21

• Initial release