[fix] reduce error logs related to X-Forwarded-For & X-Real-IP headers

To test start a `make run` instance and query multiple times for `ip` (the
answerer), you should see only once the error message(s):

    ERROR   searx.botdetection            : X-Forwarded-For header is not set!
    ERROR   searx.botdetection            : X-Real-IP header is not set!

[1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker/discussions/174
[2] https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker/pull/162#issuecomment-1692834457

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
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Markus Heiser 2023-08-25 09:51:54 +02:00 committed by Markus Heiser
parent bad692e0f0
commit 3294e7cfe4

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@ -58,6 +58,15 @@ def get_network(real_ip: IPv4Address | IPv6Address, cfg: config.Config) -> IPv4N
return network
_logged_errors = []
def _log_error_only_once(err_msg):
if err_msg not in _logged_errors:
logger.error(err_msg)
_logged_errors.append(err_msg)
def get_real_ip(request: flask.Request) -> str:
"""Returns real IP of the request. Since not all proxies set all the HTTP
headers and incoming headers can be faked it may happen that the IP cannot
@ -93,7 +102,7 @@ def get_real_ip(request: flask.Request) -> str:
# )
if not forwarded_for:
logger.error("X-Forwarded-For header is not set!")
_log_error_only_once("X-Forwarded-For header is not set!")
else:
from .limiter import get_cfg # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel, cyclic-import
@ -102,7 +111,7 @@ def get_real_ip(request: flask.Request) -> str:
forwarded_for = forwarded_for[-min(len(forwarded_for), x_for)]
if not real_ip:
logger.error("X-Real-IP header is not set!")
_log_error_only_once("X-Real-IP header is not set!")
if forwarded_for and real_ip and forwarded_for != real_ip:
logger.warning("IP from X-Real-IP (%s) is not equal to IP from X-Forwarded-For (%s)", real_ip, forwarded_for)