Add support for Fowarded header (RFC 7239)

[Kludex]

Discussed in #2236

^{Originally posted by nhairs January 28, 2024}
We should probably support the Forwarded header which was standardised in RFC 7239.

One of the benefits of this header over X-Forwarded-* headers is that it supports including the port of the client rather than just the address.

See also: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Forwarded

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[Kludex]

Reference for myself: https://systemoverlord.com/2020/03/25/security-101-x-forwarded-for-vs-forwarded-vs-proxy.html

[Kludex]

@nhairs Do you have any proposal on how we should implement this?

Can we have the X-Forwarded-* and Forwarded at the same time?

[nhairs]

Can we have the X-Forwarded-* and Forwarded at the same time?

Per the code comments I left in my open PR, I initially thought this was the case. i.e. use the official headers if available otherwise fallback to the x-forwarded headers. But I suspect that such behaviour might introduce vulnerabilities into user's applications. It might be better to take a PEP20 "Explicit is better than implicit" approach which leads me to...

@nhairs Do you have any proposal on how we should implement this?

My gut feeling is that we're better off making users explicitly choose which headers they want to extract info from. Trying to support all of them from the commandline seems like a lot of work though. What about supporting X-Real-IP headers?

Which leads to my suggestion on #2231: