Get an IP adress of a client of a SOAP service

Question

Hi!

I'm writing a SOAP service using python and soaplib. I need to get IP adresses of all clients of the service to store them to the log file. How can I do that?

Answer 1

One way to do this is to implement a "hook" which is called at different stages of the wsgi executation. See the section "Hooks" in the soaplib readme file for details and the example hook.py in that distribution.

For example, you could implement onMethodExec and then use the wsgi environ.get('REMOTE_ADDR') to obtain the client's IP address and log it.