Returns the fully qualified name of the client that sent the request. If the engine cannot or chooses not to resolve the hostname (to improve performance), this method returns the dotted-string form of the IP address.
STW my friend...STW -----Original Message----- From: urandie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 6:48 PM To: SERVLET-INTEREST Cc: urandie Subject: Re: about getRemoteHost i want the clients hostname...not server hostname. but getRemoteHost returns IP address of client not its dns hostname. why is this? Emmanuel Eze wrote: >use getServerName() if u want the server's ip address > >-----Original Message----- >From: randie ursal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:54 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: about getRemoteHost > > >hi, > > sorry for this newbie question... > > why is getRemoteHost() of HttpServletRequest return the > IP address of the client accessing my servlet and not the machine > assign dns hostname? > >thanks > randie > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > >Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html >Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html >LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
