How to get the ip address of the client posting to a service.

[Alex C]

Hey, 

I'm new to ServiceStack and I need to find out the IP address of the client talking to the service.

Basically I have a service talking to different clients, and I need to save each client's IP server side.

Thanks,

Alex.

[Demis Bellot]

You can access the IpAddress which is available from the RequestContext from your services with:

var ipAddr = base.RequestContext.IpAddress;

You can get access more info about the Request from the IHttpRequest:

var httpReq = base.RequestContext.Get<IHttpRequest>();

Finally you can get access to the original ASP.NET HttpRequest with:

var aspnetReq = (HttpRequest).OriginalRequest;

Cheers,

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[Alex C]

Great, thanks.

I'll look into that.

Alex.

[Alex C]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with this.

The base.RequestContext.Get<IHttpRequest>().UserHostAddress is giving back the actual IP from the service and not the user. I'm not sure how exactly I'm supposed to get the user's ip.

Alex.

On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:23:42 PM UTC-4, mythz wrote:

[Demis Bellot]

base.RequestContext.Get<IHttpRequest>().UserHostAddress returns the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httprequest.userhostaddress.aspx (for ASP.NET) which *is* the IP host address of the remote client.

If your services is being accessed through a proxy then this will be the proxy servers IP address and you will need to inspect the X-Forwarded-For HttpHeader to get the remote IPAddress their proxying, An example of how to get that is here:

ForwardedFor = httpReq.Headers[HttpHeaders.XForwardedFor],

from https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/master/src/ServiceStack.ServiceInterface/Providers/InMemoryRollingRequestLogger.cs#L55 

Cheers,