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Commit 3294e7cf authored by Markus Heiser's avatar Markus Heiser Committed by Markus Heiser
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[fix] reduce error logs related to X-Forwarded-For & X-Real-IP headers

To test start a `make run` instance and query multiple times for `ip` (the
answerer), you should see only once the error message(s):

    ERROR   searx.botdetection            : X-Forwarded-For header is not set!
    ERROR   searx.botdetection            : X-Real-IP header is not set!

[1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker/discussions/174
[2] https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker/pull/162#issuecomment-1692834457



Signed-off-by: default avatarMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
parent bad692e0
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@@ -58,6 +58,15 @@ def get_network(real_ip: IPv4Address | IPv6Address, cfg: config.Config) -> IPv4N
    return network


_logged_errors = []


def _log_error_only_once(err_msg):
    if err_msg not in _logged_errors:
        logger.error(err_msg)
        _logged_errors.append(err_msg)


def get_real_ip(request: flask.Request) -> str:
    """Returns real IP of the request.  Since not all proxies set all the HTTP
    headers and incoming headers can be faked it may happen that the IP cannot
@@ -93,7 +102,7 @@ def get_real_ip(request: flask.Request) -> str:
    # )

    if not forwarded_for:
        logger.error("X-Forwarded-For header is not set!")
        _log_error_only_once("X-Forwarded-For header is not set!")
    else:
        from .limiter import get_cfg  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel, cyclic-import

@@ -102,7 +111,7 @@ def get_real_ip(request: flask.Request) -> str:
        forwarded_for = forwarded_for[-min(len(forwarded_for), x_for)]

    if not real_ip:
        logger.error("X-Real-IP header is not set!")
        _log_error_only_once("X-Real-IP header is not set!")

    if forwarded_for and real_ip and forwarded_for != real_ip:
        logger.warning("IP from X-Real-IP (%s) is not equal to IP from X-Forwarded-For (%s)", real_ip, forwarded_for)