Getting IP and location of a client

[Fawad Ali]

Hi guys,
How can I get the location and IP address from a client's request. Any ideas?

[Devaka Cooray]

Have a look at the docs for getRemoteAddr() method. Note that it yields the IP address of the last proxy - which may probably not be the original client.

[Fawad Ali]

Devaka:
I am replying so late to the thread but my concern here is that how do sites like google or yahoo finds the location of the client. Do they get the IP address and then search through some kind of database table or what? I have to show a client's location (country and City) on a web page but I do not know what will be the best way(approach) to do it.

[Tim Moores]

Search for "maxmind geoip java".

[Ravi Majety]

check this page

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2257170/how-to-get-city-name-based-on-ip-address-in-java

[Daniel Val]

Fawad Ali wrote:Devaka:
I am replying so late to the thread but my concern here is that how do sites like google or yahoo finds the location of the client. Do they get the IP address and then search through some kind of database table or what? I have to show a client's location (country and City) on a web page but I do not know what will be the best way(approach) to do it.

Hi,

When google goes to that page, the page will show the location of the google spider (web crawler) , not the location of the other clients. So getRemoteAddr should be fine.

D.