docs/reverse-proxy.rst

@@ -133,14 +133,18 @@ the client to your Waitress server, as well as sending along a
If your proxy accepts both HTTP and HTTPS URLs, and you want your application
to generate the appropriate url based on the incoming scheme, also set up
your proxy to send a ``X-Forwarded-Proto`` with the original URL scheme along
with each proxied request.  For example, when using nginx::
with each proxied request.  For example, when using nginx.

.. code-block:: nginx

    proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

It's permitted to set an ``X-Forwarded-For`` header too; the
``PrefixMiddleware`` uses this to adjust other environment variables (you'll
have to read its docs to find out which ones, I don't know what they are).  For
the ``X-Forwarded-For`` header::
the ``X-Forwarded-For`` header.

.. code-block:: nginx

    proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;