How to extract IP Address in Spring MVC Controller get call?

I am working on Spring MVC controller project in which I am making a GET URL call from the browser -

Below is the url by which I am making a GET call from the browser -

http://127.0.0.1:8080/testweb/processing?workflow=test&conf=20140324&dc=all

And below is the code in which the call comes after hitting at the browser -

@RequestMapping(value = "processing", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public @ResponseBody ProcessResponse processData(@RequestParam("workflow") final String workflow,
    @RequestParam("conf") final String value, @RequestParam("dc") final String dc) {
	
		System.out.println(workflow);
		System.out.println(value);
		System.out.println(dc);
		
		// some other code
	}

	

Problem Statement:-

Now is there any way, I can extract IP Address from some header? Meaning I would like to know from which IP Address, call is coming, meaning whoever is calling above URL, I need to know their IP Address. Is this possible to do?

The solution is

@RequestMapping(value = "processing", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public @ResponseBody ProcessResponse processData(@RequestParam("workflow") final String workflow,
    @RequestParam("conf") final String value, @RequestParam("dc") final String dc, HttpServletRequest request) {

        System.out.println(workflow);
        System.out.println(value);
        System.out.println(dc);
        System.out.println(request.getRemoteAddr());
        // some other code
    }

Add HttpServletRequest request to your method definition and then use the Servlet API

Spring Documentation here said in

> 15.3.2.3 Supported handler method arguments and return types

Handler methods that are annotated with @RequestMapping can have very flexible signatures.
Most of them can be used in arbitrary order (see below for more details).

Request or response objects (Servlet API). Choose any specific request or response type,
for example ServletRequest or HttpServletRequest

I am late here, but this might help someone looking for the answer. Typically servletRequest.getRemoteAddr() works.

In many cases your application users might be accessing your web server via a proxy server or maybe your application is behind a load balancer.

So you should access the X-Forwarded-For http header in such a case to get the user's IP address.

e.g. String ipAddress = request.getHeader("X-FORWARDED-FOR");

Hope this helps.

I use such method to do this

public class HttpReqRespUtils {

    private static final String[] IP_HEADER_CANDIDATES = {
        "X-Forwarded-For",
        "Proxy-Client-IP",
        "WL-Proxy-Client-IP",
        "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR",
        "HTTP_X_FORWARDED",
        "HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP",
        "HTTP_CLIENT_IP",
        "HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR",
        "HTTP_FORWARDED",
        "HTTP_VIA",
        "REMOTE_ADDR"
    };

    public static String getClientIpAddressIfServletRequestExist() {

        if (RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes() == null) {
            return "0.0.0.0";
        }

        HttpServletRequest request = ((ServletRequestAttributes) RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes()).getRequest();
        for (String header: IP_HEADER_CANDIDATES) {
            String ipList = request.getHeader(header);
            if (ipList != null && ipList.length() != 0 && !"unknown".equalsIgnoreCase(ipList)) {
                String ip = ipList.split(",")[0];
                return ip;
            }
        }

        return request.getRemoteAddr();
    }
}

You can get the IP address statically from the RequestContextHolder as below :

HttpServletRequest request = ((ServletRequestAttributes) RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes())
        .getRequest();

String ip = request.getRemoteAddr();

In my case, I was using Nginx in front of my application with the following configuration:

location / {
     proxy_pass        http://localhost:8080/;
     proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
     proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
     proxy_set_header  Host $http_host;
     add_header Content-Security-Policy 'upgrade-insecure-requests';
}

so in my application I get the real user ip like so:

String clientIP = request.getHeader("X-Real-IP");

Below is the Spring way, with autowired request bean in @Controller class:

@Autowired 
private HttpServletRequest request;

System.out.println(request.getRemoteHost());

Put this method in your BaseController:

@SuppressWarnings("ConstantConditions")
protected String fetchClientIpAddr() {
    HttpServletRequest request = ((ServletRequestAttributes) (RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes())).getRequest();
    String ip = Optional.ofNullable(request.getHeader("X-FORWARDED-FOR")).orElse(request.getRemoteAddr());
    if (ip.equals("0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1")) ip = "127.0.0.1";
    Assert.isTrue(ip.chars().filter($ -> $ == '.').count() == 3, "Illegal IP: " + ip);
    return ip;
}

See below. This code works with spring-boot and spring-boot + apache CXF/SOAP.

    // in your class RequestUtil
    private static final String[] IP_HEADER_NAMES = { 
                                                        "X-Forwarded-For",
                                                        "Proxy-Client-IP",
                                                        "WL-Proxy-Client-IP",
                                                        "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR",
                                                        "HTTP_X_FORWARDED",
                                                        "HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP",
                                                        "HTTP_CLIENT_IP",
                                                        "HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR",
                                                        "HTTP_FORWARDED",
                                                        "HTTP_VIA",
                                                        "REMOTE_ADDR"
                                                    };

    public static String getRemoteIP(RequestAttributes requestAttributes)
    {
        if (requestAttributes == null)
        {
            return "0.0.0.0";
        }
        HttpServletRequest request = ((ServletRequestAttributes) requestAttributes).getRequest();
        String ip = Arrays.asList(IP_HEADER_NAMES)
            .stream()
            .map(request::getHeader)
            .filter(h -> h != null && h.length() != 0 && !"unknown".equalsIgnoreCase(h))
            .map(h -> h.split(",")[0])
            .reduce("", (h1, h2) -> h1 + ":" + h2);
        return ip + request.getRemoteAddr();
    }

    //... in service class:
    String remoteAddress = RequestUtil.getRemoteIP(RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes());

:)

private static final String[] IP_HEADER_CANDIDATES = {
            "X-Forwarded-For",
            "Proxy-Client-IP",
            "WL-Proxy-Client-IP",
            "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR",
            "HTTP_X_FORWARDED",
            "HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP",
            "HTTP_CLIENT_IP",
            "HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR",
            "HTTP_FORWARDED",
            "HTTP_VIA",
            "REMOTE_ADDR"
    };

    public static String getIPFromRequest(HttpServletRequest request) {
        String ip = null;
        if (request == null) {
            if (RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes() == null) {
                return null;
            }
            request = ((ServletRequestAttributes) RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes()).getRequest();
        }

        try {
            ip = InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(ip))
            return ip;

        for (String header : IP_HEADER_CANDIDATES) {
            String ipList = request.getHeader(header);
            if (ipList != null && ipList.length() != 0 && !"unknown".equalsIgnoreCase(ipList)) {
                return ipList.split(",")[0];
            }
        }

        return request.getRemoteAddr();
    }

I combie the code above to this code work for most case. Pass the HttpServletRequest request you get from the api to the method

In my case, I am using this piece of code:

private String getRemoteAddr(HttpServletRequest req) {
    if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(req.getHeader("X-Real-IP"))) {
        return req.getHeader("X-Real-IP");
    }
    return req.getRemoteAddr();
}