Francis, On 10/9/2011 10:57 AM, Francis Galiegue wrote: > I have my CIDR matching valve/filter ready (still struggling to write > unit tests, but it works in real-world situations), and there is > something I find quite unoptimized: you have getRemoteHost() and > getRemoteAddr() to get the remote host name and IP addresses as > strings, but why can't you get hold of the InetAddress object > directly?
Aside from Mark's excellent response, there are ways to modify or mask the IP or host name of the remote host, and creating additional InetAddress objects and possibly performing additional reverse-DNS lookups for such objects would be a waste of time (though they could probably be done lazily). -chris
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