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Does the application happen to be running on Windows 2000 Pro with
Apache? I had this same issue and until I added one line into the
httpd.conf file, I was unable to to use the CGI.Remote_Addr as it would
return 0.0.0.0 or unknown.
Simon Bailey wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| I would like to do some conditional checking in a Flex app based on
| Local (not proxy) IP address of the user. I have looked at using the
| below:
|
| <cfif #CGI.HTTP_X_Forwarded_For# EQ "">
| <cfset ipaddress="#CGI.Remote_Addr#">
| <cfelse>
| <cfset ipaddress="#CGI.HTTP_X_Forwarded_For#">
| </cfif>
| <cfreturn ipaddress />
|
| But found on a friend testing within a coorporate environment it
| returned unknown, further research discovered that both Remote_Addr &
| HTTP_X_Forwarded_For are unrelieable so I dug further and came up with
| the below. The query actually returned a binary value which did not
| have the typical IP format I am used to (it was something like
| 98-2342124)? Is this ok do you reckon, any one got any opinions on
| this?
|
| <cfcomponent hint="Query IP">
|
| <cffunction name="checkIP" access="remote" returntype="binary"
| hint="Return Current User IP">
|
| <cfset ipaddress=CreateObject("java",
| "java.net.InetAddress").getLocalHost().getAddress()>
|
| <cfreturn ipaddress />
|
| </cffunction>
|
| </cfcomponent>
|
| Cheers,
|
| Simon
|
|
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