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fix(proxy): forward the client IP to GA4 as _uip - #940

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Fixes #939.

GA4 geolocates collection hits by the connecting IP and ignores X-Forwarded-For. Behind the first-party proxy, every visitor is therefore placed in the server's region.

This change appends _uip to GA4 collection requests when the hit does not already carry one. The value is the first entry of the X-Forwarded-For header the proxy already sends, so it is anonymized exactly like the header when privacy.ip is set. Google receives no new data.

  • Hosts: *.google-analytics.com, analytics.google.com and its subdomains, and www.google.com, which is where gtag.js sends a copy of the same /g/collect query.
  • Paths: /g/collect and /g/s/collect.

Ads and doubleclick endpoints are unchanged. The parameter is added after the query fingerprint stripping, so stripping cannot remove it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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📦 Package Size

⚠️ 3 size metrics grew

📚 22 runtime dependencies (no change)

Package output Gzipped Δ
@nuxt/scripts · dist/runtime 103 kB → 103 kB 🔴 +295 B (+0.3%)
@nuxt/scripts · published payload 221 kB → 222 kB 🔴 +295 B (+0.1%)
@nuxt/scripts · server runtime 29 kB → 29 kB 🔴 +295 B (+1.0%)
All tracked output (25)
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@nuxt/scripts-cli · runtime dependencies 72 kB 355 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts-cli · dependency magicast 72 kB 355 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts-cli · export . 3.4 kB 12 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts-cli · published payload 3.4 kB 12 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · runtime dependencies 436 kB 1.92 MB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · dependency @nuxt/devtools-kit 2.9 kB 7.7 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · dependency @oxc-project/types 0 B 0 B ✅
@nuxt/scripts · dependency @vueuse/core 174 kB 707 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · dependency @vueuse/shared 39 kB 154 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · dependency h3 34 kB 146 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · dependency semver 25 kB 72 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · dependency sirv 8.8 kB 21 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · dependency unstorage 70 kB 225 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · dependency valibot 82 kB 590 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · dist/runtime 103 kB 304 kB 🔴
@nuxt/scripts · export . 26 kB 107 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · export ./registry 30 kB 94 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · export ./stats 13 kB 92 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · export ./types-source 49 kB 247 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · published payload 222 kB 844 kB 🔴
@nuxt/scripts · components runtime 2.5 kB 6.4 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · composables runtime 7.8 kB 26 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · registry runtime 46 kB 136 kB ✅
@nuxt/scripts · server runtime 29 kB 88 kB 🔴
@nuxt/scripts · utils runtime 2.9 kB 8.1 kB ✅
Runtime dependencies (22)
Package Dependency Requested Resolved Cost
@nuxt/scripts-cli magicast ^0.5.5 0.5.5 📦 72 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts-cli pathe ^2.0.3 2.0.3 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts @nuxt/devtools-kit ^3.4.2 3.4.2 📦 2.9 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts @oxc-project/types ^0.150.0 0.150.0 📦 0 B gzip
@nuxt/scripts @vueuse/core ^14.4.0 14.4.0 📦 174 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts @vueuse/shared ^14.4.0 14.4.0 📦 39 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts consola ^3.4.2 3.4.2 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts defu ^6.1.7 6.1.7 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts h3 ^1.15.11 1.15.11 📦 34 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts magic-string ^1.4.1 1.4.1 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts ofetch ^1.5.1 1.5.1 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts ohash ^2.0.12 2.0.12 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts oxc-walker ^1.1.1 1.1.1 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts pathe ^2.0.3 2.0.3 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts semver ^7.8.5 7.8.5 📦 25 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts sirv ^3.0.2 3.0.2 📦 8.8 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts std-env ^4.2.0 4.2.0 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts ufo ^1.6.4 1.6.4 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts ultrahtml ^1.7.0 1.7.0 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts unplugin ^3.3.0 3.3.0 ♻️ free via Nuxt 4.5.2
@nuxt/scripts unstorage ^1.17.5 1.17.5 📦 70 kB gzip
@nuxt/scripts valibot ^1.5.0 1.5.0 📦 82 kB gzip

Baseline: main_@_17dfc5ef___2026-10-02 · gzip is the comparison metric · changes below 16 B gzip are ignored

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The proxy identifies GA4 collection requests by host and path. When _uip is absent and a forwarded IP is available, it adds the first forwarded IP as _uip. Existing _uip values and requests outside the matched endpoints remain unchanged. Tests cover anonymized and raw IP values, endpoint variants, and unchanged URLs.

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Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The proxy now populates GA4 _uip from the forwarded IP, but the review found no material increase in attribution spoofing over the existing behavior. No PR-specific merge risk remains.

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The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: packages/script, test

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  • observed — packages/script (library) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
  • observed — test (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in packages/script/src/runtime/server/proxy-handler.ts: Added regular expressions identifying GA4 collection hosts and /g/collect or /g/s/collect paths.
  • observed — Modified behavior in packages/script/src/runtime/server/proxy-handler.ts: For matching GA4 collection requests, when IP privacy is enabled or the original query has no _uip, the proxy removes _uip parameters from the target URL and appends the first x-forwarded-for IP if present. This replaces a supplied _uip when IP privacy is on; otherwise, a supplied value remains unchanged.
  • observed — Modified behavior in test/unit/proxy-handler-ga-uip.test.ts: Adds test configuration that enables domain privacy for selected hosts, stubs the network dispatcher to use fetch, and documents the GA4 client-IP case under test.
  • observed — Modified behavior in test/unit/proxy-handler-ga-uip.test.ts: Adds an HTTP test harness with local upstream and proxy servers, captures the proxy’s target URL, and provides a POST helper that supplies X-Forwarded-For and expects a 204 response. Restores fetch and closes both servers after the suite.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: forwarding the client IP to GA4 through the _uip parameter.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the GA4 _uip change, affected hosts and paths, privacy behavior, and unchanged endpoints.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #939 requires GA4 collection requests to use the first X-Forwarded-For address for geolocation. The handler adds _uip for the required GA4 hosts and /g/collect or /g/s/collect paths. It …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes add GA4 host and path detection, _uip forwarding, and focused tests. The tests also verify that Ads, DoubleClick, and unrelated endpoints remain unchanged. These changes support issue #9…
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Review comments at @packages/script/src/runtime/server/proxy-handler.ts:
- Line 511: Update the GA collection `_uip` handling near the isGaCollect guard
so that, when IP privacy is enabled, it discards any client-supplied `_uip` and
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  • Logged (38/100): A client-supplied _uip in the POST body bypasses IP anonymization on GA4 collect requests. View code
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  • Logged (30/100): The PR elevates a client-forgeable XFF entry into a Google-trusted geolocation signal when IP privacy is off. View code
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First-party proxy: GA4 geolocates every visitor to the server's region

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