Rest - how get IP address of caller

Question

Hi, I am writing a Java Rest Web Service and need the caller's IP Address. It thought I saw this in the cookie once, but know don't see it. Is there a consistent place to get this information? I saw one example of using an "OperationalContext" to get it, but that was not java.

Thanks

Answer 1

Assuming you are making your "web service" with servlets, the rather simple method call .getRemoteAddr() on the request object will give you the callers IP address.

Answer 2

I think you can get the ip through the request object if i'm not mistaken request.getRemoteAddr() or so.

Answer 3

Ok... I can get the request object that you guys mentioned above by use of the HttpServletRequest Context annotation. I had seen that before, but had lost it somehow. Thank you both for the insight.