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wika
wika

Reputation: 1

how to get local ip not public ip in django?

so i have this website to manage the local network of my business i have 2 project inside it one is the callback server one is the main app that manage the local network. so i want to restrict to only people that can access the technician router can access the main app. i already make the view to get the client ip address but it return public ip but what i want is ip address that the user is connected that is in range "192.178.1.x ~ 192.178.50", can anyone help me?, if anyone have suggestion how can i used different method for this cases please just share it out. thanks :) here's code

views.py

def ip(request):
    x_forwarded_for = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')
    if x_forwarded_for:
        ip = x_forwarded_for.split(',')[0]
    else:
        ip = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')
    print(ip)
    return HttpResponse(ip)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 232

Answers (1)

Seth
Seth

Reputation: 2370

Your local IP can be found in python with the following code:

import socket
local_ip = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
print(local_ip)

I don't know much about Django, but hopefully you can implement this snippet in your code.

Upvotes: 1

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