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💖 Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this is the manual for Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy, and it lives in section 3 of the User Contributed Perl Documentation (iykyk, that's the perl manpage collection). It's giving very "small module, big responsibilities" energy and honestly? we're obsessed. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy — bestie, this one supports an app to run as a reverse proxy backend. that's literally the whole job. no notes. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

builder {
    enable_if { $_[0]->{REMOTE_ADDR} eq '127.0.0.1' }
        "Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy";
    $app;
};

see how cute that is? that's the whole setup, she's lowkey elegant 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy resets some HTTP headers that got changed by the reverse proxy. like, the proxy came in and rearranged the furniture and this middleware puts it back where it belongs. 🧹✨

And here's the part where you get to be a little paranoid (affectionately): you can specify the reverse proxy address, and you can stop fake requests, by using the 'enable_if' directive up in your app.psgi. Yes bestie, the enable_if thing is your bouncer at the door. 🚪💪 no fake requests allowed, periodt.

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👑 LICENSE 👑

This software is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself. iconic behavior, fr fr. 🌈

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright 2009-2019 Tatsuhiko Miyagawa</>, holding it down since 2009 😭👑

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

This module is originally written by Kazuhiro Osawa</> as HTTP::Engine::Middleware::ReverseProxy for HTTP::Engine. glow-up to Plack, we love to see it. 💖

and then the rest of the squad, all absolute legends:

• Nobuo Danjou</>
• Masahiro Nagano</>
• Tatsuhiko Miyagawa</>

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

go read these next, bestie, they're the extended universe:

• HTTP::Engine::Middleware::ReverseProxy
• Plack
• Plack::Middleware
• Plack::Middleware::Conditional

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💀 reminder that you do not want to be running this wide open for just anyone — the whole point of that enable_if directive is to specify the reverse proxy address and stop fake requests. do not skip the vibe check. 🙈

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perl v5.42.3 · 2026-10-18 — and that's the page, bestie! shipped with perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-10-18, and yes she slayed every single line of it. mwah 💅💖 bye!! 🌸✨🦋