Hi everyone! Not sure if this ever came up before, but I was wondering if there is any way a registered RPC handler could find out from its WebServer the IP address of the connecting client requesting RPC?
I've looked through the code a bit and, apparently, in WebServer.java, method run(), the Socket from serverSocket.accept() is retrieved which should contain the client's IP address (method Socket.getInetAddress()). However, the Socket is just passed on to the thread mechanism which, eventually and ignoring any such information, will invoke a registered handler's fitting RPC method, while the WebServer will be ready again to accept other incoming requests. Obviously, the latter means storing the IP in the WebServer doesn't work as other requests might have come in before a finally invoked RPC method of a handler for a previous request queries the stored IP. Is there any way that the threads could carry on such information and make it somehow available to the handlers? Or better yet, am I just too blind to see the obvious, already working solution? :o) To sum up, it's the connecting client's IP that I am interested in, not the local WebServer's IP (which I assume can be queried from the stored serverSocket if one extends the WebServer class). A solution where one naively expects an RPC client to send its own IP as an argument with the RPC request is not desirable as it could easily be faked. Thanks for any help! Cheers, Chris PS: My apologies if messages should not be posted to both mailing lists. But I just couldn't decide which of the two is the more suitable one.
