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Add support for allowing GoModel to show the real client IP in audit logs. It works by extracting the first IP from x-forwarded-for headers that isn't in a new trusted cidrs setting

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    • Added trusted proxy CIDR configuration for audit logging.
    • Audit entries can identify the originating client IP from X-Forwarded-For when requests come through configured trusted proxies.
    • Untrusted requests continue using the direct connection address; forwarding headers are ignored by default.
    • Proxy addresses are validated, normalized, and deduplicated during startup.
  • Documentation

    • Added configuration examples and guidance covering restart requirements and security behavior.

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The change adds trusted proxy CIDR configuration, normalizes and validates entries, resolves audit client IPs from trusted X-Forwarded-For chains, wires the resolver into audit middleware, and adds tests and documentation.

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Trusted proxy audit IP resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Trusted proxy configuration and normalization
.env.template, config/config.example.yaml, config/config.go, config/config_test.go, config/logging.go, config/logging_test.go, docs/advanced/configuration.mdx
LogConfig accepts LOGGING_TRUSTED_PROXY_CIDRS and logging.trusted_proxy_cidrs. Values are trimmed, deduplicated, normalized, and validated. Documentation describes the configuration and fallback behavior.
Forwarded client IP resolution
internal/auditlog/clientip.go, internal/auditlog/clientip_test.go
TrustedProxies parses trusted networks and selects the nearest non-trusted forwarded hop when the socket peer is trusted. Invalid or incomplete forwarding data returns the direct socket address.
Audit logging integration
internal/auditlog/auditlog.go, internal/auditlog/factory.go, internal/auditlog/middleware.go, internal/app/app.go, tests/e2e/auditlog_test.go
The audit logger receives trusted proxy configuration, middleware uses the resolver, startup logging records the configured networks, and tests verify direct and forwarded client IPs.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Request
  participant AuditMiddleware
  participant TrustedProxies
  participant AuditEntry
  Request->>AuditMiddleware: HTTP request with socket peer and X-Forwarded-For
  AuditMiddleware->>TrustedProxies: ClientIP(request, directIP)
  TrustedProxies->>TrustedProxies: Check trusted socket peer and forwarded hops
  TrustedProxies-->>AuditMiddleware: Resolved client IP
  AuditMiddleware->>AuditEntry: Record ClientIP
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The trusted-proxy audit-IP behavior is configured, validated, and integrated with safe fallback behavior. No remaining merge-blocking risk is identified.

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Trusted hops now mark the trail
Untrusted addresses stay in sight
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Add support for allowing gomodel to show the real client IP from
x-forwarded-for headers via a trusted cidrs setting.
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I spoke with AI about this PR. My conclusion is that I can merge it and slightly refactor/adjust(make a few things slightly more configurable) OR if you want, you can improve it at this PR. Let me know which option do you prefer.

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How I'd implement it

One resolver, at the server, feeding c.RealIP(). Config under server, not logging:

SERVER_TRUSTED_PROXIES=10.0.0.0/8,127.0.0.1 # CIDRs, bare IPs, or the presets below

Parse once at config load into []netip.Prefix, put it on server.Config, and build the echo.IPExtractor from it in internal/app. Then internal/auditlog/middleware.go stays exactly as it is today (ClientIP: c.RealIP()), internal/auditlog/clientip.go disappears, and every future consumer gets the same answer for free.

Use net/netip, not net.IP/net.IPNet. You're on Go 1.27. netip.Prefix/netip.Addr make roughly 60 lines of this PR vanish: canonicalProxyCIDR, singleHostCIDR, the ::ffff: mess CodeRabbit flagged, and the manual %zone stripping (Addr.Unmap(), Addr.WithZone(""), Prefix.Contains). It also stops allocating per request. The IPv4-mapped bug class CodeRabbit found only exists because of net.IPNet.

Parse once. Right now config.NormalizeTrustedProxyCIDRs validates and canonicalizes strings, then auditlog.ParseTrustedProxies re-parses the same strings with different semantics (it silently skips what the loader would have rejected). Two parsers with two behaviours for one setting is a bug waiting to happen — the comment in ParseTrustedProxies even admits it's relying on the loader having run. Have Load() produce the typed value and pass that.

Making it more configurable

The setting as shipped only handles "reverse-scan X-Forwarded-For". That misses most managed-edge deployments. I'd add, in rough priority order:

  1. Presets for the CIDR list. private (RFC1918 + ULA), loopback, cloudflare, */all. The docker/k8s case — "my ingress is somewhere in 10.0.0.0/8 and I don't know where" — is the common one, and making people hand-enumerate it is how you get 0.0.0.0/0 pasted into production. Default still empty; presets are opt-in shorthand, not implicit trust.
  2. A configurable header. SERVER_CLIENT_IP_HEADER=X-Forwarded-For|X-Real-IP|CF-Connecting-IP|True-Client-IP|Forwarded. Behind Cloudflare or a GCP LB, the correct answer is "take CF-Connecting-IP verbatim, ignore XFF" — the chain-scan is the wrong algorithm there, not just a different header. RFC 7239 Forwarded support is a nice-to-have; the single-header mode is not.
  3. Hop-count mode. SERVER_TRUSTED_HOPS=1 — "strip exactly N rightmost entries, take the next." This is what you want when your edge is at a fixed depth and you don't want to enumerate its (rotating) IPs. It's the mode most other gateways expose, and it composes with the CIDR mode rather than replacing it.

Point 2 is the one I'd consider a gap rather than a nice-to-have: today a Cloudflare user cannot configure this correctly at all.

Smaller things

  • TestMiddlewareClientIPTagging builds its context with httptest.NewRequest + echo.New().NewContext, which AGENTS.md says to do via internal/echotest. echotest has no WithRemoteAddr option yet — adding one is the right fix, and it'll be reused.
  • The docs is long and reads like a design rationale. The table row plus three sentences ("off by default; list your proxy networks; restart required") would serve users better; the reasoning belongs in the code comments, where it already is.
  • The markdown table row in configuration.mdx has misaligned pipes.

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My feelings will not be hurt if you refactor or even completely rewrite this from scratch. I'm just focused on the outcome 😆

I should say after looking through that blurb, my immediate use case is in my home lab where the clients have private IPs, but in a different range than my k8s cluster (where gomodel and my reverse proxy is running). So as long as I can only use some of the private IP space CIDRs instead of all of it, it will suit my needs. It almost seemed like it was suggesting to include all private IP space by default

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Thanks for expressing your use case :) It helps!

Merging this one and probably I'll modify this part a little bit soon!

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Replaces LOGGING_TRUSTED_PROXY_CIDRS (unreleased, added in #1049) with
SERVER_TRUSTED_PROXIES, SERVER_CLIENT_IP_HEADER, and SERVER_TRUSTED_HOPS.
The old key is not accepted.
SantiagoDePolonia added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 20, 2026
…ies (#1061)

* feat(server): resolve client addresses from configurable trusted proxies

Replaces LOGGING_TRUSTED_PROXY_CIDRS (unreleased, added in #1049) with
SERVER_TRUSTED_PROXIES, SERVER_CLIENT_IP_HEADER, and SERVER_TRUSTED_HOPS.
The old key is not accepted.

* test(server): exercise the client IP wiring through the extractor and a single-address header
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@iggy FYI, the configuration shape was changed slightly here. It will be released today OR tomorrow.

That's the way it could be configured: https://github.com/ENTERPILOT/GoModel/pull/1061/changes#diff-749e06f64632f62a0c0dfbf4c4f3850e27e94ac109aa121fabd5c29469ae88de

(or just ask your AI agent about that how to set up it properly :)

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