RE: x-forwarded-for an IDS capability

["Hellman, Matthew" <Hellman.Matthew () principal com>]

That's a nice idea, I personally haven't seen or heard of it being implemented.  If you can get a trace with the alert 
you might see it there. Also, a SIM should be able to do this for you (by means of including the firewall/router/proxy 
logs and correlating them).

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com]
> > On Behalf Of James
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:28 PM
> > To: focus-ids () securityfocus com
> > Subject: x-forwarded-for an IDS capability
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > Does anyone know of an IDS vendor/or opensource product that has the
> > capability of associating
> > an ip address in an x-forwarded-for http header with an IDS event ?
> > This includes events that fire on a download as well so there would
> > need to be some
> > kind of internal http state management.
> >
> > I notice this request from Jason Haars back in 2004 to the snort
> > mailing list but I can't seem to find anything else on this in google
> > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/snort/2004-06/0235.html
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > --
> > jac



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