Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#19250 closed Uncategorized (duplicate)
SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Example in Documentation Should Use X-Forwarded-Proto Instead of X-Forwarded-Protocol
Reported by: | Owned by: | nobody | |
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Component: | Documentation | Version: | 1.4 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
While setting up a reverse proxy scenario with nginx and AWS I noticed the documentation uses an example (while technically correct) is somewhat off-kilter from emerging de-facto standards for the header in question.
For example - the Elastic Load Balancer uses:
There is also a wikipedia article mentioning the same thing (albeit not the bible):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields
I would like to see the documentation perhaps reflect the state of things most common in the working world if possible.
Duplicate of #19249