Parse X-Forwarded-For to get ip with werkzeug on Heroku
Heroku proxies requests from a client to server, so you have to parse the X-Forwarded-For to find the originating IP address. The general format of the X-Forwarded-For is: X-Forwarded-For: client1, proxy1, proxy2 Using werkzeug on flask, I'm trying to come up with a solution in order to access the originating IP of the client. Does anyone know a good way to do this? Thank you! Werkzeug (and Flask) store headers in an instance of werkzeug.datastructures.Headers . You should be able to do something like this: provided_ips = request.headers.getlist("X-Forwarded-For") # The first entry in the list