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 TLS version and cipher suite selection flags are available from the command line. To list available cipher suites, use the `-list-cipher-suites` flag.  The `-tls-min-version` flag can be used with `-list-cipher-suites`.
 
+## Running behind a reverse proxy
+[webhook][w] may be run behind a "reverse proxy" - another web-facing server such as [Apache httpd](https://httpd.apache.org) or [Nginx](https://nginx.org) that accepts requests from clients and forwards them on to [webhook][h].  You can have [webhook][w] listen on a regular TCP port or on a Unix domain socket (with the `-socket` flag), then configure your proxy to send requests for a specific host name or sub-path over that port or socket to [webhook][w].
+
+Note that when running in this mode the [`ip-whitelist`](docs/Hook-Rules.md#match-whitelisted-ip-range) trigger rule will not work as expected, since it will be checking the address of the _proxy_, not the _client_.  Client IP restrictions will need to be enforced within the proxy, before it decides whether to forward the request to [webhook][w].
+
 ## CORS Headers
 If you want to set CORS headers, you can use the `-header name=value` flag while starting [webhook][w] to set the appropriate CORS headers that will be returned with each response.
 
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+Note this does not work if webhook is running behind a reverse proxy, as the "client IP" will either not be available at all (if webhook is using a Unix socket or named pipe) or it will be the address of the _proxy_, not of the real client.  You will probably need to enforce client IP restrictions in the reverse proxy itself, before forwarding the requests to webhook.
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 ### Match scalr-signature
 
 The trigger rule checks the scalr signature and also checks that the request was signed less than 5 minutes before it was received.