How to get the I.P. Address of client that is hitting your webservice?

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The title pretty much says it all, I have written a REST webservice in Java using JAX-RS and Jersey, and I would like to extract the I.P. address of the client that hits it in my code. If I have a class like this:

@Path("/service")
public class Service {

    @GET
    public void doAction () {

        // ...

    }

}

What do I do from there?

P.s. I'm not asking for debugging help, I'm asking how I can retrieve the IP address of the client that connects to my web service. @ANyarThar provided a good answer.

You mean ask the client to explicitly enter their IP address? Nope... sadly not — , Jul 25 '14 at 05:46
Not sure for Jersey, but in Spring MVC you can pass the HTTP request as a method parameter. — chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-, Jul 25 '14 at 05:46
duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14254999/how-to-get-remote-client-ip-address-using-restful-web-service-in-java — Pat, Jul 25 '14 at 05:55

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '14 at 05:48

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How @Context HttpServletRequest as argument in your method,

@GET
public void doAction (@Context HttpServletRequest req) {
    //then get ip address
    String ipAddress = req.getRemoteHost();
}

answered Jul 25 '14 at 05:48

Wundwin Born

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How to get the I.P. Address of client that is hitting your webservice?

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