Dear All,

How does one get the IP Address of whoever initiated the request?

I tried:

if (request.getHeader("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR") == null)
IPAddr = request.getRemoteAddr();
else
IPAddr = request.getHeader("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR");

This should check for proxies and return the correct IP Address, unfortunately it returns only a local IP Address viz 127.0.0.16

This is JBoss 3.2.0 with Jetty running at Alacartejava.

In the next appliation I will need to get the IP Address to map the user to a country to display the correct ad on the site.

Thanks,

Chris