getsentry / getsentry/sentry-javascript
Automatically exclude tunnel request from backend transactions
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Description
### Problem Statement
When setting up the `tunnel` option, users will often follow [the docs](https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/troubleshooting/#using-the-tunnel-option) and add a local API route to forward those envelopes.
These POST requests will usually get auto-instrumented on the backend and will potentially result in a transaction for every frontend envelope.
### Solution Brainstorm
Filter these out in some way?
If the `tunnel` option is set in the frontend, we could automatically set the `Content-Type` as `application/x-sentry-envelope`. This can be picked up in the http instrumentation and used to ignore these requests.
- Adding the `Content-Type` header will also fix a Svelte issue #16112
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