2015-09-08 21:22 GMT+02:00 Brian <brian...@emailbb.com>:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> First of all, I'm using:
>
> - Tomcat 7.0.50
>
> - Nginx 1.4.7
>
>
>
> When I use Tomcat alone, ServletRequest.getRemoteHost()
> (http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/ServletRequest.html#getRe
> moteHost()
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/ServletRequest.html#getRe
> moteHost())> ) works fine. But when Tomcat is behind Nginx (Nginx acting
> as a reverse proxy), it does not.
>
> Just to make myself clear, this is the architecture I'm talking about:
>
>
>
> Client -----> Nginx (as a reverse proxy) -----> Tomcat.
>
>
>
> The problem is that ServletRequest.getRemoteHost() gives me the hostname of
> the proxy itself (meaning Nginx) and not that of the client.
>
>
>
> I was able to get the IP address of the visitor (and not that of the host
> where Nginx is running) doing this on Nginx:
>
>
>
> server {
>
> listen 80;
>
> server_name www.acme.com acme.com;
>
> location / {
>
> proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
> <------- This line did the trick
>
> proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
>
> proxy_pass http://152.53.163.220:80/;
>
> }
>
> }
>
>
>
> And then inspecting the content of the "X-Forwarded-For" header in my java
> programming. But what do I do to obtain the remote hostname? I guess it is
> something similar, but I haven't found a solution. What I want to know is:
>
> - Exactly what configuration do I need in Nginx
>
> - Exactly what do I do from Java to obtain the value.
Why not do you perform a reverse DNS lookup by code ? Something like :
InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getByName("xx.xx.xx.xx");
String host = addr.getCanonicalHostName();
System.out.println(host);
You only need to extract 'X-Forwarded-For' header from request and
execute that piece of code
Regards
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> Brian
>
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