Configuring X-Header Handling Settings

You can configure how Deep Discovery Web Inspector manages X-Header settings for the X-Forwarded-For and X-Authenticated-User fields.

X-Header settings are supported for all deployment modes.

Go to Administration → System Settings → X-Header Handling.
Enable or disable X-Forwarded-For Parsing .

If this option is enabled, when Deep Discovery Web Inspector gets the X-Forwarded-For from the user request, Deep Discovery Web Inspector uses the first address of the resolved X-Forwarded-For instead of the IP address of the TCP connection to do authentication, decryption, scanning, and logging.

Specify the X-Header handling settings for X-Forwarded-For and X-Authenticated-User.

Option

Description

Keep

Retain the information found in the X-Forwarded-For or X-Authenticated-User fields.

Remove

Remove the specified field.

Add

Retain the specified field and additionally:

For X-Authenticated-User, append the user info to the field.

The appended user information is added in the following format: [DOMAIN]\[USERNAME]

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