nginx change referer for proxy

Question

I have set up a very basic proxy rule in nginx. However the resources where the request are proxyed do a referer check. It must be the same domain the service is running at. I therefore need to change the referer. I tried a proxy_set_header but that doesn´t seem to work.

Am I missing something or is there any other way to do this?

location /api/v1/ {
    proxy_pass http://192.168.10.10:8080;
    proxy_set_header Referer "http://192.168.10.10";
}

Were you able to find a workaround? – user805981 Mar 31 '17 at 19:04 — user805981, Mar 31 '17 at 19:04

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '17 at 05:24

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You say that the proxied server asks for a domain name as a referer. Try that domain name instead of IP address.

proxy_set_header Referer "http://proxied-domain-here.com";

answered Jun 19 '17 at 05:24

Nick

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Thanks for this. I was having a similar issue, which was solved by quoting the new referer string and adding "http://" to the beginning. – Bri Bri May 09 '18 at 19:57
This can be a bad idea for CSRF. However, nginx doesn't seem to provide a way to edit the referer header. – Pawel Veselov Jun 05 '18 at 17:54

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '19 at 08:43

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Few years later, but this could be helpful to somewhere, you miss the port at the referer header (:8080):

    proxy_set_header Referer "http://192.168.10.10:8080";

I hope can be helpful.

answered Aug 01 '19 at 08:43

Ruben Arroyo Ceruelo

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