diff --git a/files/en-us/web/http/headers/x-forwarded-host/index.md b/files/en-us/web/http/headers/x-forwarded-host/index.md index 34092e3fd4a068d..2fd9b78e86484d8 100644 --- a/files/en-us/web/http/headers/x-forwarded-host/index.md +++ b/files/en-us/web/http/headers/x-forwarded-host/index.md @@ -16,13 +16,6 @@ Host names and ports of reverse proxies (load balancers, CDNs) may differ from t origin server handling the request, in that case the `X-Forwarded-Host` header is useful to determine which Host was originally used. -This header is used for debugging, statistics, and generating location-dependent -content and by design it exposes privacy sensitive information, such as the IP address -of the client. Therefore the user's privacy must be kept in mind when deploying this -header. - -A standardized version of this header is the HTTP {{HTTPHeader("Forwarded")}} header. - @@ -55,8 +48,7 @@ X-Forwarded-Host: id42.example-cdn.com ## Specifications -Not part of any current specification. The standardized version of this header is -{{HTTPHeader("Forwarded")}}. +Not part of any current specification. ## See also