Sam,
 I knew I missed something.  There is a C-string containing the local_ip of
the server in the conn_rec struct.

 I believe the access from a request_rec would be r->connection->local_ip

Dave





On 5/9/07, David Wortham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Sam,
   From what I know, which is not much, a server name could be any ID
given to a computer.  It could be an IP, it could be a domain or
"sub"domain, or it could be any ID defined in a /etc/hosts or equivelent
(which would only have to be defined on the visitor's computer).  I believe
this value is defined to be whatever your VirtualHost is defined to be.
There could be ServerAliases which resolve better than the actual
servername.

   You can try a local getbyhostname() (which may be OS-dependent an/or
deprecated) or something similar, but there is no gurantee you will get a
good reverse-IP-lookup resolve.  Try searching the web for "man
getbyhostname".  You may need to find something newer to handle IPv6
addresses (if that is a concern).

   It is true that when a visitor uses "localhost" to access a webserver,
it is translated into "127.0.0.1" (I believe on both sides).

   I know it's not the best and most definitive answer, but I hope it
helps a little.

Dave



On 5/9/07, Sam Carleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am working on the access to my kiosk system, one condition I need to
> handle in a unique way is when a web browser is run on the same
> physical machine as Apache.  It is obvious when using localhost or
> 127.0.0.1.  But when the URL is the machine name, I seem to be getting
> an IP address.  I do see in r->server->server_hostname, is there any
> way to convert that into the IP address?
>
> Sam
>



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David Wortham
Senior Web Applications Developer
Unspam Technologies, Inc.
(408) 338-8863




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Senior Web Applications Developer
Unspam Technologies, Inc.
(408) 338-8863

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