Kibana 4.3 sending x-Forwarded-For:127.0.0.1 , even if i am not using any load balancer ,Is it a desired behavior

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I am using Kibana 4.3.0 with ES 2.1 and I can see kibana is sending x-Forwarded-for : 127.0.0.1 in the request header to elasticsearch even though if i am not using any load balancer . Can you please confirm if its a desired behavior?

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Just, this is expected and even desired behavior. To quote from this issue: Kibana 4.3 sending x-Forwarded-For:127.0.0.1 , even if i am not using any load balancer ,Is it a desired behavior? · Issue #5705 · elastic/kibana · GitHub

Yes, kibana uses this header to identify clients connecting through the /elasticsearch endpoint.