I dont think there is any way to do that unless you use the middleware or maybe possibly a third party library

does next automatically add it to requests made from the server side or no

google is a great tool

@Peterbald, just pinging you because you might not have seen my message because I have message notifications off

hmm this looks promising i did google it originally but the results varied

i got the "x-forwared-for" but its just localhost every time

nvm chatgpt figured it out

for anyone wondering - the x-forwared-for header is provided by vercel using nginx this can be by setting a reverse proxy with this setting

   proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;