Question about get_ipaddr function about slowapi

[Nebulizer1213]

actually I don't think it matters because it will still be unique to that user. Unless the second ip changes. I'm not really sure what the second ip is.

[Nebulizer1213]

just looked it up it is the proxy ip. I think it would still be best to do it like this request.headers["X_FORWARDED_FOR"].split(",")[0]
but I could be wrong

[laurentS]

@Nebulizer1213 I'm wondering if this might be due to how your server is configured, I don't recall seeing this duplicate IP.
Two comments though:

• as you point out, the limiter only really cares about having some sort of string to identify a user, it does not have to be an IP (this depends on your use case)
• the function in the code is just a convenience function to get you started, you don't have to use it at all. Instead you can implement whatever function you want that returns a string identifying your users, and pass it to the limiter constructor.

[Nebulizer1213]

ok thanks