Re: obtaining consumer IP

[Robert Gombotz]

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
 
 
 
 

obtaining consumer IP

[Robert Gombotz]

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

SOAP message content in the service implementation

[Robert Gombotz]

Hi.


This is more of a general question I am afraid. 
I would need to have access to some parts of my SOAP message in the
service implementation. More precise, I am sending some info to a WS A
in SOAP headers. This service A in turn makes a call to another WS B(
in doing so WS A is acting as a client/consumer). Now I would like to
include the information, which WS A received in the form of SOAP
headers, to the message that WS A sends to WS B.
I am aware of handlers being able to process messages, but is it
possible to get a hold of the message inside the WS implementation? I
am pretty sure that it is not possible with Axis. After all, the
implementation of the WS would only be working when used as a WS.
So if I am right and it is not possible, does anybody know of other
SOAP enabled application servers that allow you to do something like
that?
Or any hints as to how I could alter the Axis code so that it migh be
possible (I know, that would be a mission and and half, anyway.)


Thanks in advance

Rob