From b3de69e5d6e4877555849ac66e42e31d2e638262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stavros <steveiliop56@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:36:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore: add comment explaining uri header

---
 internal/controller/proxy_controller.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/internal/controller/proxy_controller.go b/internal/controller/proxy_controller.go
index d146f85..60e117d 100644
--- a/internal/controller/proxy_controller.go
+++ b/internal/controller/proxy_controller.go
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ func (controller *ProxyController) proxyHandler(c *gin.Context) {
 		tlog.App.Debug().Msg("Request identified as (most likely) coming from a non-browser client")
 	}
 
+	// We are not marking the URI as a required header because it may be missing
+	// and we only use it for the auth enabled check which will simply not match
+	// if the header is missing. For deployments like Kubernetes, we use the
+	// x-original-uri header instead.
 	uri, ok := controller.getHeader(c, "x-forwarded-uri")
 
 	if !ok {