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problem with getting ip address in servlet

hi,

suppose i have an html file in
http://ip1/index.htm

and is sending a request to a servlet in another server with ip2.

my problem is that how can i get ip1 from the request
within my servlet running on server ip2.

plz. note that i don't want to get the ip of client.

thanx in advance.
merson

giamtrot

What do you want is the referer to the servlet but I think you can't get this information in the servelt automatically.
What you could try is to add this information to your first page, so that it's communicated to the servlet.

An example to do it via Javascript is above:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>

<body onload="document.ip.domain.value=document.domain">

<form name="ip" action="servlet">
<input type="Hidden" name="domain" value="">
<input type="Submit" onClick="alert(document.ip.domain.value); return false;">
</form>

</body>
</html>

It passes the name you used to get to the server (which is not always the ip address).

Cheers,

Raffaele

superschlonz

I think you should be able to get the referrer with the getHeader(String) method of HttpServletRequest.

Mick Barry

If u don't want the ip of the client, and you don't appear to eant the ip of the web server, then whose ip are u after?

merson

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hi,

i want to get the ip of the server on which my html file is
uploaded.

suppose i am having my html file index.htm on server1 with ip1 and my servlet is on server2 with ip2

merson

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