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How to do it, when server or client is behind a proxy

Posted by pavan on December 18, 2001 at 2:35 PM

My appserver is behind IIS, when i make the request.getRemoteAddr, it is returning the IP of the m/c which is hosting IIS (proxy). I think the situation would be same when the client is behind a proxy server. request.getRemoteAddr will return the proxy address.
Is there any work around for this.
Thanks,
pavan
> Mattias,

> In the servlet, use request.getRemoteAddr() - inherited from ServletRequest. This returns the IP address of the agent that sent the request as a String. Also, request.getRemoteHost() will attempt to get the fully qualified host name. If it cant resolve the name however, the IP address will be returned as in getRemoteAddr().

> Hope this helps.

> Regards,

> Jody