Stephen Hansen wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant
<jeanmic...@sequans.com <mailto:jeanmic...@sequans.com>> wrote:
I don't know exactly what you are trying to do, but if your server
requires informations from the client, it would be better to ask
explicitly the client for those informations.
For instance, if a method requires te client IP address, then the
IP address is definitely a parameter of the method.
I can't answer the OP, as I don't know the answer to his specific
question-- but er, asking a client to provide one's IP address is not
really a very workable solution. There's no way to really determine
your own IP address in a reliable way.
All the usual methods (e.g.,
socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())) can fail and/or be wrong
in some not terribly uncommon situations. The only reliable way to get
such a piece of information is to connect to a server, and ask that
server what address you were connecting to them as. Even then, that IP
may not be the same as an IP you use to connect to say, a different
server (on a different network)
--S
You're probably right.
But my point covered only the fact that if a method needs something it
should ask it explicitly throught parameters, not taking the opportunity
to guess it since it happens that it's a xmlrpc server and that the
information could be deduced from the client IP address.
My feeling is that the OP needed something else than the client IP
address, and was trying at the server side to map client IPs with the
data he effectively needs. I could be wrong though.
JM
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