Great! Thanks for your advice as well. What I am doing now is purely academic, so it doesn't have to pass the "real-world" test :-)
Rob On 4/26/05, Tim K. (Gmane) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From the MessageContext you can get the HttpServletRequest and from > that the IP: > > HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest) > msgContext.getProperty(org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPConstants.MC_HTTP_SERVLETREQUEST); > > String ip = req.getRemoteAddr(); > > However, keep in mind that the IP address may be misleading if the > client is going through a proxy or you have a load balancer in front of > your server or a caching server, etc. I know in a real production system > you will most likely get a local IP address. Also, if you want to do > security based on the IP address, keep in mind that IP addresses can be > easily spoofed. For this reason I find relying on the IP address to be a > bad plan. > > Tim > > > Robert Gombotz wrote: > > >Hi! > > > > > >I would need to obtain the IP address of clients/consumers that make > >calls to my Web services, preferably using a SOAP handler. > >So far, I have not found a way of achieving this. The MessageContext > >seems to be the only data I have in a handler, and from what I > >understand it does not contain the client's IP. > > > >Any hints and ideas are greatly appreciated. > > > > > >Rob > > > > > > > >