Many cloud-based platforms use proxies wrapped around applications. This enables the platform to support many features, including caching, content delivery networks (CDN), load balancing, and SSL termination. After all, why put such common infrastructure requirements on developers?
However, the side effect can break security protocols designed to protect us in the web. For example, our application may be running on a private IP address, while original requests come in on a public-facing URL. When our application sees a forwarded web request, how are we to distinguish it between a proper request versus some nefarious cross site scripting attack leveraging our service?
The first place this can affect our application ...
