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Documented how to configure Symfony correctly with regards to the Forwarded header #6526

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Q A
Doc fix? yes
New docs? no
Applies to >2.7
Fixed tickets

Ref: symfony/symfony#18688

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Documented how to configure Symfony correctlywhen
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your reverse proxy is not handling the Forwarded
header the way Symfony expects it to.
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javiereguiluz
javiereguiluz reviewed May 2, 2016
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cookbook/cache/varnish.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ Remember to configure :ref:`framework.trusted_proxies <reference-framework-trust
in the Symfony configuration so that Varnish is seen as a trusted proxy and the
:ref:`X-Forwarded <varnish-x-forwarded-headers>` headers are used.

Varnish, in its' default configuration, sends the ``X-Forwarded-For`` header but
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its' -> its

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👍 nice additions to an important topic which is probably underdocumented. Thanks @magnusnordlander

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Varnish, in its default configuration, sends the ``X-Forwarded-For`` header but
does not filter out the ``Forwarded`` header. If you have access to the Varnish
configuration file, you can configure Varnish to remove the ``Forwarded``
header::
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One of the colons needs to be removed to make the build happy. :)

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fabpot commented May 3, 2016

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components/http_foundation/trusting_proxies.rst
stored in a ``X-Forwarded-Host`` header.
headers or the ``Forwarded`` header. For example, the ``Host`` HTTP header is
usually used to return the requested host. But when you're behind a proxy,
the true host may be stored in a ``X-Forwarded-Host`` header.
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Maybe replace "true host" with "actual host" here? (my dev. mind strongly binds true to a boolean value)

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wouterj commented May 5, 2016

Thanks @magnusnordlander! I've left a lot of very minor comments. It would be great if you can fix these, otherwise we'll do it while merging.

xabbuh added a commit that referenced this pull request May 9, 2016
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minor #6526 Documented how to configure Symfony correctly with regard…
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…s to the Forwarded header (magnusnordlander)

This PR was squashed before being merged into the 2.7 branch (closes #6526).

Discussion
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Documented how to configure Symfony correctly with regards to the Forwarded header

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Doc fix?      | yes
| New docs?     | no
| Applies to    | >2.7
| Fixed tickets |

Ref: symfony/symfony#18688

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87ab598 Documented how to configure Symfony correctly with regards to the Forwarded header
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[#6526] some minor tweaks
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xabbuh commented May 9, 2016

Thank you @magnusnordlander! I have squashed your commits while merging and made some minor tweaks in 574afd5.

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Merge branch '2.7' into 2.8
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* 2.7:
  [#6526] some minor tweaks
  Documented how to configure Symfony correctly with regards to the Forwarded header
  Improved the description of the Twig global variables
  Add a warning about using same user for cli and web server
  Correctly document new twig functions
  Updated Twig template to take into account asset() function changes
  [DependencyInjection] Unquote services FQCN in parent-services examples
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Merge branch '2.8' into 3.0
3891d6b 
* 2.8:
  [#6526] some minor tweaks
  Documented how to configure Symfony correctly with regards to the Forwarded header
  Improved the description of the Twig global variables
  Add a warning about using same user for cli and web server
  Correctly document new twig functions
  Updated Twig template to take into account asset() function changes
  [DomCrawler] Removed references to CssSelector
  [DependencyInjection] Unquote services FQCN in parent-services examples
  [DependencyInjection] Unquote services FQCN in autowiring examples
xabbuh added a commit that referenced this pull request May 9, 2016
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Merge branch '3.0'
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* 3.0:
  [#6526] some minor tweaks
  Documented how to configure Symfony correctly with regards to the Forwarded header
  Improved the description of the Twig global variables
  Add a warning about using same user for cli and web server
  Correctly document new twig functions
  Updated Twig template to take into account asset() function changes
  [DomCrawler] Removed references to CssSelector
  [DependencyInjection] Unquote services FQCN in parent-services examples
  [DependencyInjection] Unquote services FQCN in autowiring examples
fabpot added a commit to symfony/symfony that referenced this pull request Jun 29, 2016
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bug #18688 [HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded a…
2d37230 
…nd X-Forwarded-For (magnusnordlander)

This PR was squashed before being merged into the 2.7 branch (closes #18688).

Discussion
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[HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded and X-Forwarded-For

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 2.7
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets |
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | symfony/symfony-docs#6526

Emit a warning when a request has both a trusted Forwarded header and a trusted X-Forwarded-For header, as this is most likely a misconfiguration which causes security issues.

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ee8842f [HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded and X-Forwarded-For
symfony-splitter pushed a commit to symfony/framework-bundle that referenced this pull request Jun 29, 2016
@fabpot
bug #18688 [HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded a…
8989695 
…nd X-Forwarded-For (magnusnordlander)

This PR was squashed before being merged into the 2.7 branch (closes #18688).

Discussion
----------

[HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded and X-Forwarded-For

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 2.7
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets |
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | symfony/symfony-docs#6526

Emit a warning when a request has both a trusted Forwarded header and a trusted X-Forwarded-For header, as this is most likely a misconfiguration which causes security issues.

Commits
-------

ee8842f [HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded and X-Forwarded-For
symfony-splitter pushed a commit to symfony/http-kernel that referenced this pull request Jun 29, 2016
@fabpot
bug #18688 [HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded a…
b4c9467 
…nd X-Forwarded-For (magnusnordlander)

This PR was squashed before being merged into the 2.7 branch (closes #18688).

Discussion
----------

[HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded and X-Forwarded-For

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 2.7
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets |
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | symfony/symfony-docs#6526

Emit a warning when a request has both a trusted Forwarded header and a trusted X-Forwarded-For header, as this is most likely a misconfiguration which causes security issues.

Commits
-------

ee8842f [HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded and X-Forwarded-For
symfony-splitter pushed a commit to symfony/http-foundation that referenced this pull request Jun 29, 2016
@fabpot
bug #18688 [HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded a…
e8fa5fe 
…nd X-Forwarded-For (magnusnordlander)

This PR was squashed before being merged into the 2.7 branch (closes #18688).

Discussion
----------

[HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded and X-Forwarded-For

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 2.7
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets |
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | symfony/symfony-docs#6526

Emit a warning when a request has both a trusted Forwarded header and a trusted X-Forwarded-For header, as this is most likely a misconfiguration which causes security issues.

Commits
-------

ee8842f [HttpFoundation] Warning when request has both Forwarded and X-Forwarded-For
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