Does Payload hide IP's?

[vivid pilot]

My frontend and cms is both proxied through cloudflare, on my nextjs frontend i can get the user ip via CF-Conntecting-Ip but on payload this is undefined? I am trying to get the Ip in the beforeOperation hook in the users collection

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[wet tendon]

How are you trying to get the IP?

[vivid pilot]

headers["CF-Connecting-IP"]

[wet tendon]

Did you try ['x-forwarded-for'] already?

oh i see, thats CF header

[vivid pilot]

yea, thats undefined cause we proxy from cloudflare

[wet tendon]

Hmm. can you turn on trustProxy

https://payloadcms.com/docs/production/preventing-abuse#rate-limiting-requests

I'm not positive, but I think that obfuscates proxied IPs

if its off

[vivid pilot]

kk

[wet tendon]

Let me know if that works

[vivid pilot]

wait where do i set that to true though lol

oh ratelimit property

[wet tendon]

yeah

[vivid pilot]

shows undefined

[wet tendon]

Do any CF headers come back with a value?

[vivid pilot]

uhh not sure, anything in specific?

[wet tendon]

Ehh im not sure, I'm going through some related SO posts and I can see that https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52026610/get-client-ip-address-of-a-request-instead-of-cloudflares-ip-address

Similarly, people mention the need to allow the CF proxy

I wonder if you can access it via the middleware, its odd it would be undefined

[vivid pilot]

oh wait

i need it to be cf-connecting-ip

i did CF-Connecting-IP

[wet tendon]

Ahhhh

well

im not sure case sensitivity matters

but lets see

[vivid pilot]

yea it worked lol, can i dm you something?

[wet tendon]

oh wow!

Very nice

sure!

[uncut galleon]

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[vivid pilot]

Thanks for the help though, much appreciated :D