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docs: Add missing AXES_IPWARE_PROXY_ORDER setting documentation

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@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ following settings to suit your set up to correctly resolve client IP addresses:
* ``AXES_IPWARE_META_PRECEDENCE_ORDER``: The names of ``request.META`` attributes as a tuple of strings
to check to get the client IP address. Check the Django documentation for header naming conventions.
Default: ``IPWARE_META_PRECEDENCE_ORDER`` setting if set, else ``('REMOTE_ADDR', )``
* ``AXES_IPWARE_PROXY_ORDER``: The order in which to evaluate IP addresses from proxy headers when multiple IPs are present
in the header chain. Must be either ``"left-most"`` or ``"right-most"``. **Default:** ``"left-most"``
.. note::
For reverse proxies or e.g. Heroku, you might also want to fetch IP addresses from a HTTP header such as ``X-Forwarded-For``. To configure this, you can fetch IPs through the ``HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR`` key from the ``request.META`` property which contains all the HTTP headers in Django: