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Yasser Shaikh
Yasser Shaikh

Reputation: 47804

How to get IpAddress and UserAgent in ASP.NET Web API get methods

I am using ASP.NET Web Api to expose a few GET methods.

But before I return the data I need to log a couple of details to the db, of which few of them are as listed below :

Now in the controller when I used to do this I used to use the following code,

var ipAddress = Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"];
var userAgent = Request.UserAgent;

But here in Web API I am unable to use this.

Can anyone please help me out with this.

Upvotes: 23

Views: 37488

Answers (2)

YD1m
YD1m

Reputation: 5895

You should use HttpRequestMessage class, that conteins all data you need.

Read more:

Upvotes: 4

Yasser Shaikh
Yasser Shaikh

Reputation: 47804

I figured it out,

public static LogModel GetApiLogDetails()
{
    var logModel = new LogModel();
    logModel.TimeStamp   = DateTime.Now;
    logModel.CallerIp    = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;
    logModel.CallerAgent = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserAgent;
    logModel.CalledUrl   = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.OriginalString;
    return logModel;
}

with a little help from

Get Web Api consumer IP Address and HostName in ASP.NET Web API &

Get the IP address of the remote host

Upvotes: 21

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