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Add note about transparent MitM proxies
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@@ -1997,7 +1997,11 @@ <h2>Privacy Considerations</h2>
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processing the <a>request</a>. For errors during <a>DNS resolution</a>, a
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NEL report only contains information available from DNS itself. This
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prevents <a>servers</a> from abusing NEL to collect more information about
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their users than they already have access to.
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their users than they already have access to. Note that NEL reports will
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include a web site's public IP address in the <a>server_ip</a> field,
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which may not always be known to the service which generates the NEL
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header, for example if it is behind a load balancer or other transparent
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MitM proxy.
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<p class="note">

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