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-----Original Message----- From: randie ursal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: about getRemoteHost i want the clients hostname...not server hostname. but getRemoteHost returns IP address of client not its dns hostname. why is this? Emmanuel Eze wrote: >use getServerName() if u want the server's ip address > >-----Original Message----- >From: randie ursal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:54 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: about getRemoteHost > > >hi, > > sorry for this newbie question... > > why is getRemoteHost() of HttpServletRequest return the > IP address of the client accessing my servlet and not the machine > assign dns hostname? > >thanks > randie > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > >Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html >Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html >LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
