Do the following work for you?
$r->connection->remote_addr->port
$r->connection->local_addr->port
> Hi.
>
> Apologies to Steve and Torsten for posting this previously to them directly.
> It somehow slipped my mind that this would have been a better place.
> Anyway thus :
>
> I am in the process of converting some mod_perl AAA code from Apache 2.2 to
> 2.4, and I
> encounter the following problem :
>
> Apache error log :
>
> Can't locate object method "port" via package "APR::SockAddr" at
> /home/mira/EFS/lib/AUTH/SLC.pm line 1184.\
>
> which corresponds to :
>
> 1183: my $client_addr = $r->connection->client_addr;
> 1184: $remote_port = $client_addr->port;
>
> In the Apache 2.2 version, this was :
>
> $remote_port = $r->connection->remote_addr->port;
>
> and worked fine.
>
> Environment :
>
> Linux d1s008 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02)
> x86_64
> GNU/Linux (Debian "Jessie" as far as I know)
>
> Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) mod_apreq2-20090110/2.8.0 mod_perl/2.0.9dev
> Perl/v5.20.2 configured
> -- resuming normal operations
> (apache2 and mod_perl are the standard Debian Jessie apt-get packages)
>
>
> I have tried to find clues on the WWW, CPAN etc.. but I do not find anything
> about
> APR::SockAddr::port(), except this snippet (quite old..) :
>
> CPAN :
> mod_perl 2.10 Changes :
> ...
> 1.99_14 - May 21, 2004
>
> APR::SockAddr::port() accessor is now read-only [Stas]
>
> Also on the host, the APR::SockAddr module source :
>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/APR/SockAddr.pm :
>
> quote
> =item obj: C<$sock_addr>
> ( C<L<APR::SockAddr object|docs::2.0::api::APR::SockAddr>> )
>
> =item ret: C<$port> ( integer )
>
> =item since: 2.0.00
> unquote
>
> .. seems to imply that this should work.
> (And so do
> https://metacpan.org/pod/APR::SockAddr#port
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/APR/SockAddr.html#C_port_
> )
>
> Am I doing something wrong ?
>
> More importantly to me right now : how can I get the client's connection port
> number,
> possibly using a workaround ? I am in control of the Apache httpd
> configuration.
>
> I do not really care if this is the real client port, or a port of some
> intermediate
> proxy, as long as it remains consistent across severall KeepAlive calls of
> the same client
> workstation.
> I need this port number to forward to another module (of which I do not have
> the source),
> which uses this (and the remote IP), as a kind of persistent identifier for
> the client
> connection (for Windows WIA authentication).
>
> The only way I can think of right now, would be to add a request header at
> the httpd level
> with the remote client IP:port, and then retrieve and decode that same header
> in my AAA
> module. But that seems a bit convoluted and heavy-handed.
> Is there a way in a PerlAuthenHandler to retrieve an "Apache environment
> variable"
> directly, which would have been set like so ?
>
> RewriteRule .* - [E=INFO_REMOTE_ADDR:"%{REMOTE_ADDR}\:%{REMOTE_PORT}",NE]
>
>
> Thanks in advance
> André Warnier
Randolf Richardson - rand...@inter-corporate.com
Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc.
Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
http://www.inter-corporate.com/
