How AI is applied across API Evangelist and APIs.io. Read my AI disclosure →
API Evangelist API Evangelist
Discovery
Learnings
Guidance
Toolbox
Alignment
API Evangelist LLC

Add Support for X-Forwarded-For header in API

calendar_today October 8, 2026 person @Ketan Ketan Gupta domain upstox

Hi @hirak X-Forwarded-For: We don’t consider the X-Forwarded-For header. The request origin IP is taken at our CDN level, so API users can’t forge it. Trusting a client-supplied header would let anyone pass the registered IP and defeat the purpose of the static IP requirement.

open_in_new Read original post