Take IP from HTTP_X_REAL_IP when behind a proxy

request/middleware.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from django.utils.deprecation import MiddlewareMixin
 
 from . import settings
+from .utils import get_ip_address
 from .models import Request
 from .router import Patterns
 from .utils import request_is_ajax
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ def process_response(self, request, response):
         if request_is_ajax(request) and settings.IGNORE_AJAX:
             return response
 
-        if request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR') in settings.IGNORE_IP:
+        if get_ip_address(request) in settings.IGNORE_IP:
             return response
 
         ignore = Patterns(False, *settings.IGNORE_USER_AGENTS)

request/models.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 from . import settings as request_settings
 from .managers import RequestManager
-from .utils import HTTP_STATUS_CODES, browsers, engines, request_is_ajax
+from .utils import HTTP_STATUS_CODES, browsers, engines, request_is_ajax, get_ip_address
 
 AUTH_USER_MODEL = getattr(settings, 'AUTH_USER_MODEL', 'auth.User')
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def from_http_request(self, request, response=None, commit=True):
         self.is_ajax = request_is_ajax(request)
 
         # User information.
-        self.ip = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR', '')
+        self.ip = get_ip_address(request)
         self.referer = request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER', '')[:255]
         self.user_agent = request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT', '')[:255]
         self.language = request.META.get('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE', '')[:255]

request/utils.py

@@ -182,3 +182,7 @@ def handle_naive_datetime(value):
     if settings.USE_TZ and timezone.is_naive(value):
         return timezone.make_aware(value)
     return value
+
+def get_ip_address(request):
+    return request.META.get(
+        'HTTP_X_REAL_IP', request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR', '127.0.0.1'))