Missing IP address in the bid request

[Sebastian Woźniak]

Hi Team,

we have received information from the Google support team that the IP address is missing in the ads bid requests in the CTV Android APP. We would like to fix it but how can we check the param existence by ourselves? by some tools? can the Charles be helpful?

Thanks

Sebastian

[IMA SDK]

Hi Sebastian,

Thank you for contacting IMA SDK Support Team.

This happens because:

• The publisher has chosen to disallow the sending of IP addresses.
• The impression is on a mobile device that is not connected to WiFi.

For more detail kindly follow this document.

Please note that we can assist issue related to IMA SDK Integration.

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This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!5004Q02vGleP:ref" (ADR-00276480)

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IMA SDK Team

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[Sebastian Woźniak]

Thanks for the reply, a device is Android TV and it is connected to Wifi.

I've sent you two Charles sessions from the device by form, with different code solutions. Can you please check if the IP address appears and is passed correctly?

Thank you very much.

[IMA SDK]

Hi Sebastian,

Thank you for sending the Charles sessions. I tried to find the IP address in the provided Charles, but I couldn't find any results related to the IP address because IP addressed are truncated. Please note that all IP addresses are truncated to protect our users. However, these truncated IP addresses can still offer information such as general geographic region and ISP.

IPv4 addresses are truncated to 3 byte strings, which represent the first three octets of an IP address, so that 172.16.254.1 becomes {0xAC, 0x10, 0xFE}.

IPv6 addresses are truncated to 6 byte strings. Buyers will get the first 6 bytes of IPv6 addresses. The address 2001:db8:f:1234::1 is shortened to 2001:db8:f::/48 and represented as {0x20, 0x01, 0x0d, 0xb8, 0x00, 0x0f}.

Also, As stated earlier our team can best assist issues related to IMA SDK Integration and technical implementation.