That IPv6 address is localhost. So you maybe have been trying to access
the site from the server itself. I don't know of any situation (outside of
IP spoofing) where localhost would be returned from that call. Did you
actually try to hit your web service/page from someplace on the public
internet?
Regardless, getRemoteAddr() is not fully dependable anyways. If it were
me, I would first check for the presence of an "X-Forwarded-For" header and
use that. If that is null (or if it is not a valid IP address -- or a
listing of IP addresses/ranges), then fall back to getRemoteAddr(). You
could even check one against the other.
If you are fronting your own application server with a load balancer or
firewall, then you will undoubtedly need to use the "X-Forwarded-For"
header. Otherwise, the getRemoteAddr() will return the IP address of your
own firewall.
-- Rick
On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Heather and Jon Turgeon <
tashiba40_evergr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I am trying to get the users general location server side (the
> country). I have tried getContext().getRequest().getRemoteAddr(); bu that
> just returns 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 (was going to use a web service to get the
> country from the IP address). Has anyone been able to do this and if so
> can you point me in the right direction? Thanks again.
>
>
> Jon
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