Describe the bug
If ForwardedHeaderTransformer is enabled in Spring Cloud Gateway, X-Forwarded-For Header will not be sent to upstream services
Steps to reproduce
- Enable ForwardedHeaderTransformer in Spring Cloud Gateway by setting: server.forward-headers-strategy=framework
- Setup some upstream service to which the gateway fowards requests.
- Use a REST client to send some request to the upstream service via gateway. Set the X-Forwarded-For header in the request.
- Watch the request going to the upstream service. It has no X-Forwarded-For header.
- Other headers, like X-Forwarded-Host will work.
Debugging
Since a while, ForwardedHeaderTransformer in Spring Boot supports X-Forwarded-For header:
remoteAddress = UriComponentsBuilder.parseForwardedFor(request, remoteAddress);
In UriComponentsBuilder.parseForwardedFor, the address is build as following:
return InetSocketAddress.createUnresolved(host, port);
However, in Spring Cloud Gateway, we have the following in XForwardedHeadersFilter:
if (isForEnabled() && request.getRemoteAddress() != null
&& request.getRemoteAddress().getAddress() != null) {
String remoteAddr = request.getRemoteAddress().getAddress().getHostAddress();
write(updated, X_FORWARDED_FOR_HEADER, remoteAddr, isForAppend());
}
Debugging shows, that request.getRemoteAddress().getAddress() is null and so, no X-Fowarded-For Header is written.
I guess that is due to the InetSocketAddress.createUnresolved in UriComponentsBuilder.
I don't know whether ForwardedHeaderTransformer / UriComponentsBuilder or XForwardedHeadersFilter is wrong here, but together, they fail.
P.S.:
createUnresolved seems to be intentionally, to avoid DNS resolution. See spring-projects/spring-framework@c5ac8e8
So, it would probably be the best solution if XForwardedHeadersFilter could (also) deal with an unresolved remote address.
Describe the bug
If ForwardedHeaderTransformer is enabled in Spring Cloud Gateway, X-Forwarded-For Header will not be sent to upstream services
Steps to reproduce
Debugging
Since a while, ForwardedHeaderTransformer in Spring Boot supports X-Forwarded-For header:
In UriComponentsBuilder.parseForwardedFor, the address is build as following:
However, in Spring Cloud Gateway, we have the following in XForwardedHeadersFilter:
Debugging shows, that
request.getRemoteAddress().getAddress()is null and so, no X-Fowarded-For Header is written.I guess that is due to the
InetSocketAddress.createUnresolvedin UriComponentsBuilder.I don't know whether ForwardedHeaderTransformer / UriComponentsBuilder or XForwardedHeadersFilter is wrong here, but together, they fail.
P.S.:
createUnresolved seems to be intentionally, to avoid DNS resolution. See spring-projects/spring-framework@c5ac8e8
So, it would probably be the best solution if XForwardedHeadersFilter could (also) deal with an unresolved remote address.