Getting the IP Address Of A client For a webservice

Question

I am using JAX-WS and I am having trouble retrieving the client information that is consuming a webservice. I've found out how to do it with JAX-RPC, and Apache Tomcat Axis, but not with JAX-WS. Does anyone have an idea about this?

score 49 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '09 at 04:30

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What about this:

@WebService
public class MyService {

  @Resource
  WebServiceContext wsContext; 

  /**
   * Web service operation
   */ 
  @WebMethod 
  public String myMethod() { 

    MessageContext mc = wsContext.getMessageContext();
    HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest)mc.get(MessageContext.SERVLET_REQUEST); 
    System.out.println("Client IP = " + req.getRemoteAddr()); 

  }

}

answered Oct 29 '09 at 04:30

Pascal Thivent

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I think I just missed the @Resource annotation. – monksy Oct 29 '09 at 05:13
To the best of my knowledge this is the best description of how to do this on the whole wide web. ;) Thank you, Pascal! – Zakum Mar 08 '12 at 15:49
I try same but mc size 22 and "request" is null. I can't understand why, have you any idea? – luffy Jun 30 '16 at 08:15
This works only in a servlet container but the OP asked for a JAX-WS implementation. Take a look at [this posting](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12727989/jax-ws-getting-client-ip) for a good summary to retrieve the IP address in different environments. – Markus L Jul 26 '16 at 14:07

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited May 07 '12 at 10:17

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Or this:

@Path("terminal")
public class terminal {
    @Context private javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest hsr;
    @GET
    @Path("get_ip")
    @Produces("text/plain")
    public String get_ip()
    {
            return ip = hsr.getRemoteAddr();
    }
}

edited May 07 '12 at 10:17

Darren

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answered Dec 14 '10 at 07:54

Zayin Krige

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Is this not applicable to REST only? – Koekiebox Aug 31 '16 at 06:01

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 06 '12 at 02:07

Taking a huge and appreciated hint from Zayin and Darren's answer/edit, I tried this, and it works too.

@GET
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
@Path("ip")
public String sayIP(@Context HttpServletRequest req, @QueryParam("p1") String p1, ...) {
    return req.getRemoteAddr();
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 29 '13 at 05:35

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public String getIp(@Context HttpServletRequest req) {
    return req.getRemoteHost();
}

answered Oct 29 '13 at 05:35

N K

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@Context cannot be identified, and no import is suggested, what is this exactly ? – abdelrahman-sinno Nov 19 '15 at 14:53
@united-expression, https://jax-rs-spec.java.net/nonav/2.0/apidocs/javax/ws/rs/core/Context.html, https://jersey.java.net/documentation/latest/jaxrs-resources.html – N K Nov 20 '15 at 08:28

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