Python, Flask client ip address

Question

I need to log the IP address of every user of my webapp, that I've created with Python and Flask.

I'm using

request.remote_addr

But that's return the IP address of the server the app is deployed to. Any fixes to this?

Possible duplicate of [Get IP address of visitors using Python + Flask](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3759981/get-ip-address-of-visitors-using-python-flask) — javad, Nov 02 '16 at 09:52

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 29 '17 at 14:52

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How do you deploy the flask application?

I guess you deploy your app via a reverse-proxy server like nginx, right?

If you did that then request.remote_addr is the address of your server because your server sent client's request to your application and sent the response to the client.

To fix this, see: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.11/deploying/wsgi-standalone/#proxy-setups

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answered Nov 02 '16 at 09:57

THaGKI9

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I deploy the app with supervisor on AWS – Brian Nov 02 '16 at 09:59
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Actually, I found out that this `request.headers.get('X-Forwarded-For', request.remote_addr)` works well for my needs – Brian Nov 02 '16 at 10:05

score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '17 at 15:45

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The easiest way to get the user's(also known as client) IP is to set this as a variable or use it directly.

request.environ['REMOTE_ADDR']

To get your server's IP:

request.remote_addr

answered Jul 08 '17 at 15:45

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`request.environ['REMOTE_ADDR']` and `request.remote_addr` are the same thing (and not solving the problem the OP asked about.) – Arel Jul 10 '20 at 04:56

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