Obtaining client connection

2003-09-12 Thread Peter Guyatt
Hi There, I am not too sure if you are actually able to do this but I have a need to get the IP address/hostname of the client that has accessed a page in our web application. This is mainly for security/auditing purposes, however I really need to get the client Socket connection and not

Re: Obtaining client connection

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Barker
It sounds like all you want is request.getRemoteAddr()/request.getRemoteHost(). These give you the IP/DNS-name of the client's box. All of this is taken from the Socket (since there really isn't any other way to get at it). If you need to get the IP on your machine that they connected to, then