Get the IP address of the caller to API

Question

I have a dotnet core ASP 3.1 MVC server app. I expose an HTTP GET through the controllers. Is there a way to get the IP address of the caller to the API?

Answer 1

you can use IHttpContextAccessor to get the IP. use this code in your controller:

[ApiController]
[Route("[controller]")]
public class YourController : ControllerBase
{

    private readonly IHttpContextAccessor accessor;

    public YourController (IHttpContextAccessor accessor)
    {
        this.accessor = accessor;
    }

    [HttpGet]
    public void Get()
    {
        var ip= accessor.HttpContext.Connection.RemoteIpAddress.ToString();
    }
}

and at the Startup.cs add this line of code to your ConfigureServices:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    ...
    services.AddSingleton<IHttpContextAccessor, HttpContextAccessor>();
    ...
}