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Re:Announcing Better SSL for your Heroku App by ccollins on Thursday May 03, 2012 @05:26PM (#3925904)
"Client IP address is forwarded to application as X-Forwarded-For" is the biggest news here.

Previously, it cost $100 per month to have access to the Client IP over SSL, so any sort of geo-location was out of the question.

Insane prices for arbitrary things are why I left Heroku a few months ago and decided to custom build my servers on Linode.

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Re:Announcing Better SSL for your Heroku App by gemlogger on Friday May 04, 2012 @01:49AM (#3927223)
Isn't this just Heroku copying what cloudflare already has on offer?
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Re:Announcing Better SSL for your Heroku App by bgentry on Friday May 04, 2012 @01:59AM (#3927251)
This is a standard HTTP Proxy header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For
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Re:Announcing Better SSL for your Heroku App by revelation on Friday May 04, 2012 @03:59AM (#3927512)
In fact, the "X" indicates it is not a standard header. But yes, very common for proxies to pass on.
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