Topic

Proxy header trust

The X-Forwarded-For family of HTTP headers by which reverse proxies pass the original client address to the application behind them, and the trusted-peer configuration that decides when reading them is safe.

Current clusters

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FastAPI middleware puts a third-party lookup in front of your liveness probe

Starlette resolves the route after the middleware stack has already run, so a geolocation middleware fires on /health and /docs as well. A per-route dependency scopes the same lookup to the handlers that actually need it.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+18
Incentives30
Confidence58