How do I get the remote address of a client in servlet?

Question

Is there any way that I could get the original IP address of the client coming to the server? I can use request.getRemoteAddr(), but I always seem to get the IP

Answer 1

Why don't use a more elegant solution like this?

private static final List IP_HEADERS = Arrays.asList("X-Forwarded-For", "Proxy-Client-IP", "WL-Proxy-Client-IP", "HTTP_CLIENT_IP", "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR");

public static String getClientIpAddr(HttpServletRequest request) {
    return IP_HEADERS.stream()
        .map(request::getHeader)
        .filter(Objects::nonNull)
        .filter(ip -> !ip.isEmpty() && !ip.equalsIgnoreCase("unknown"))
        .findFirst()
        .orElseGet(request::getRemoteAddr);
}

Deduplicate your code!