Feature Request: Add proxy support for URL upload

[rdn]

💡Describe your idea

This is for us using proxy like Cloudflare to Hide our Main server to avoid possible DDOS attack.
So we can support Remote Upload of images.

👏Where did you saw this?

https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/manual/config/#http-client-settings

Sample config:

$config['http']['proxy'] = 'tcp://1.1.1.1:8888';

 

[Fumi]

For CloudFlare, you need to have DNS hosted with them, and on their proxy service to be protected from DDoS. Only limitation is when you are protected, the maximum you can upload is 100MB.

 

[rdn]

I'm sorry but you didn't understand the purpose of this feature request.

 

[SimplyCorbett]

I'm sorry but you didn't understand the purpose of this feature request.

Restoring original visitor IPs

Learn how to configure mod_cloudflare to log your visitor’s original IP address based on your origin web server type (including Apache, nginx, Microsoft IIS, and others). Overview mod_remoteip mo...

support.cloudflare.com

Restoring original visitor IPs

Learn how to configure mod_cloudflare to log your visitor’s original IP address based on your origin web server type (including Apache, nginx, Microsoft IIS, and others). Overview mod_remoteip mo...

support.cloudflare.com

 

[rdn]

Still that's not relevant to what I'm requesting here.

 

[SimplyCorbett]

Still that's not relevant to what I'm requesting here.

Ah, proxies like cloudflare. You can still use something like haproxy and get the real ip that way.

But seeing this feature implemented is okay in my books! Not sure if it will be added since v3 is on LTS. Would probably have to be in V4.

 

[konj]

For CloudFlare, you need to have DNS hosted with them, and on their proxy service to be protected from DDoS. Only limitation is when you are protected, the maximum you can upload is 100MB.

Exactly, and the thing is with the free package on Cloudflare, once they notice that u have enough traffic they can make some profit from it, u will be banned or forced to upgrade to premium.

 

[Fumi]

I'm sorry but you didn't understand the purpose of this feature request.

I'm not sure how then, as you yourself said.

This is for us using proxy like Cloudflare to Hide our Main server to avoid possible DDOS attack.
So we can support Remote Upload of images.

 

[rdn]

Sample scenario

XF 2.1 - Image Proxy Solutions

Hello, My forum runs behind Cloudflare and to prevent the origin IP from being revealed I'm looking to proxy http img embeds of my forum through a different server. There's some services out there, such as https://images.weserv.nl/ where you can append an image to an URL and it'll proxy it for...

xenforo.com

 

[SimplyCorbett]

Sample scenario

XF 2.1 - Image Proxy Solutions

Hello, My forum runs behind Cloudflare and to prevent the origin IP from being revealed I'm looking to proxy http img embeds of my forum through a different server. There's some services out there, such as https://images.weserv.nl/ where you can append an image to an URL and it'll proxy it for...

xenforo.com

Which script are you using on the frontend? Note that in your example imgur.com would be your chevereto host.

 

[Rodolfo]

Nice suggestion, next time don't forget to add to the title which kind of proxy, in this case a proxy for the remote upload functionality.

Just saying, don't drive me mad. BTW, I already edited the post.