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hjuskewycz
hjuskewycz

Reputation: 1437

JBoss Netty getting User IP (Http Request)

I need to log the user ip ady's for every request to our JBoss Netty server. I thought:

MessageEvent e;
e.getChannel().getRemoteAddress();

was the correct answer, but this always returns 127.0.0.1 and I need the actual client ip. Coming from Rails I checked how they find out the ip, from the docu:

Determines originating IP address. REMOTE_ADDR is the standard but will fail if the user is behind a proxy. HTTP_CLIENT_IP and/or HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR are set by proxies so check for these if REMOTE_ADDR is a proxy. HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR may be a comma- delimited list in the case of multiple chained proxies; the last address which is not trusted is the originating IP.

So should I check for all the headers in Netty or is there an easier way?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3374

Answers (1)

hjuskewycz
hjuskewycz

Reputation: 1437

Ok I have the answer. Using ChannelHandlerContext instead of MessageEvent does the trick.

SocketAddress remoteAddress = ctx.getChannel().getRemoteAddress();

Upvotes: 3

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