How do I get the client's IP address from within a Perl Frontier-RPC call?

Answer 1

I run both Frontier::Daemon and Frontier::RPC2 (under Apache). I do not know how to grab the client IP when using Frontier::Daemon, but if you use Frontier::RPC2 then the Apache environment variable $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} will contain the client's IP address.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, you can't do this using Frontier's server class. By the time the local procedure/method is called, you don't have any handle on the actual socket connection itself.

As it happens, being able to access this information is a recent feature I added to the server class in my RPC::XML package. See the "How Methods Are Called" section in the docs for the server class.