[stunnel-users] How to forward client's IP address with stunnel on Windows

Mon Oct 8 20:23:37 CEST 2012

On 10/08/2012 07:22 PM, Emmanuel Egensperger wrote:
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> Is there any solution to my problem ? Have I done something wrong ?
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I use a small patch for this, it also passes some more "nice to know" 
stuff to the application running "behind" stunnel. I agree that this 
patch might be shooting a bit over your target, but anyhow that is how I 
do it myself.

Patch description;
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Allows passing of crypto parameters for the current client to the
server "behind" stunnel. This allows the application in the server
to take the crypto level and client-ip:port into account when
offering a service (or not).

The client info is passed as the *first* line before the normal
unencryped data stream from the client.

Example "192.168.10.53:53353;ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA"
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The crypto level is nice to know as stunnel can be configured to allow 
weaker cryptos (for backwards compatibility with older browsers). When 
the application sees a week crypto it can require a one-time password as 
authentication, instead of normal username:static-password. As this info 
is passed as a first line, the application need written to take this 
into account.

Mike: I have been using this patch for some time without any issues, if 
you like to include it in stunnel it is under public domain.The patch is 
re-based on top of 4.54b8. Is is enabled with a new option 
"send_client_info = yes", without this it does nothing.

Regards,
  Henrik
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