API logs error when visiting Feeds page

[regulartim]

When I open the Feeds page on my instance running the develop branch, the application logs an error to api_errors.log:

2026-05-05 15:09:26,199 - api.views.utils - get_request_source_ip - ERROR - Unable to extract valid source IP from request. X-Forwarded-For: , REMOTE_ADDR:

[cclts]

Hi, I looked into this issue and it seems not related to the Feeds functionality itself.
The error is triggered when the Feeds page loads and calls /api/feeds/. During this process, the backend attempts to collect request source statistics via get_request_source_ip().

However, in this case:
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR is empty
REMOTE_ADDR is also not set

This raises UnableToExtractSourceIPError. The exception is actually caught upstream, so it only skips statistics collection and does not affect the main Feeds behavior. The problematic part is that get_request_source_ip() treats missing request IP metadata as an error.
I’d like to take this issue and fix by downgrading the log level since this is non-critical.
What do you think? @regulartim

[SupRaKoshti]

Hi @cclts , I also thought that we should downgrade the log level from error to warning! but @regulartim raise the error when he load the feed page! so HTTP_X_FORWARED_FOR and REMOTE_ADDR shouldn't be empty! that's what maybe @regulartim talking about!

[regulartim]

I'll try to investigate later today, if the HTTP_X_FORWARED_FOR and REMOTE_ADDR are actually empty or not when I request the page. But I agree, log level should be warning, not error. I'll assign you @cclts !