Yes, what Robert said is perfect, you can't get the remote host name. If you so critical about that client information then you can some Geographic location software's like this to find that out http://www.ip2location.com/. In one of our POC, we used this to identify the country where our user is residing. If somebody sitting in India using a proxy server located is UK then this software show only UK. Beware of this. Since the possibility of this is very rare, we neglected it.
~Muthu -----Original Message----- From: Robert Graf-Waczenski [mailto:r...@lsoft.com] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 5:04 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: How to get the host name if proxy is configured Mageshwaran schrieb: > Hi All, > > In my application, am using request.getRemoteHost() to get the host > name where the client is running. But it is returning the proxy > address if configured instead of host address/ host name. Can any one > help me to solve this issue? > > Thanks in Advance, > Magesh. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > > Short answer: You can't. A proxy by definition executes the request on behalf of the client and can therefore completely mask the actual client host address. There are, however, non-RFC-complient request headers that you might query: request.getHeader("x-forwarded-for") But be warned: Many proxies don't supply this information correctly, so you have to live with what getRemoteHost() gives you. Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
