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mathrawka on March 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Node.js

You need to use TCP forwarding on the ELB, not HTTP. The disadvantages are:

* You cannot enable stickiness on the ELB

* You will not get the client IP forwarded to your instances

miles932 on March 12, 2013 [–]

you do get the client IP, but it comes as a request header: x-forwarded-for http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/Devel...

lucian1900 on March 12, 2013 | | [–]

How would that work for a protocol that isn't HTTP?

mathrawka on March 12, 2013 | | [–]

There are no HTTP headers in pure TCP.

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