Why does Socket.getHostOrIP() return localhost ?

[Gareth Murfin]

Socket.getHostOrIP() returns localhost andn ot an ip, why is that ??

[Shai Almog]

On which OS?
Notice that getting the current host/IP is problematic.

[Gareth Murfin]

on Android..  is it problematic? I saw some native code for android that claims to work, not tried yet. My client wishes to identify which country the user is in via their ip (some sort of traceroute I assume) - that is why we need the ip. I guess I could visit whatsmyip.com and scrape it somehow.

On 21 September 2016 at 05:47, Shai Almog <shai....@gmail.com> wrote:

On which OS?
Notice that getting the current host/IP is problematic.

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[Shai Almog]

This is usually done on the server side where it is more reliable as the IP might be 192.168.* which will give you nothing.

[Gareth Murfin]

how could it be done on the server side though? I want the IP of the client, I dont see how the server could work it out ?

On 22 September 2016 at 04:49, Shai Almog <shai....@gmail.com> wrote:

This is usually done on the server side where it is more reliable as the IP might be 192.168.* which will give you nothing.

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[Dave Dyer]

A client on any kind of LAN will return 192.168.0.n or something equally useless.   The only
way to find what IP the host presents to the outside world is to be in the outside world.

[Shai Almog]

This is pretty easy to do in the servlet API thru the HttpServletRequest class.

[Gareth Murfin]

Ah a good old servlet, cheers!!

On 23 September 2016 at 07:04, Shai Almog <shai....@gmail.com> wrote:

This is pretty easy to do in the servlet API thru the HttpServletRequest class.

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