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X-Forwarded-For Aware Rate Limiter

7.2
security profitable added: Thursday August 2026 09:50

A middleware library that correctly handles the 'X-Forwarded-For' header in reverse proxy environments, providing accurate IP address detection for rate limiting, IP logging, and other security measures. It ensures requests from behind tunnels are properly attributed to their origin client.

100h
mvp estimate
7.2
viability grade
6
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technology stack

Java Medium

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You put your app behind a tunnel (or any reverse proxy)