[Stripes-users] Getting users location

[Heather and Jon Turgeon]

Hi all, I am trying to get the users general location server side (the country). I have tried getContext().getRequest().getRemoteAddr(); bu that just returns 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 (was going to use a web service to get the country from the IP address). Has anyone been able to do this and if so can you point me in the right direction? Thanks again.


Jon

[Joaquin Valdez]

I typically get the setting from the browser locale and language.

Joaquin

Post by Heather and Jon Turgeon
Hi all, I am trying to get the users general location server side (the country). I have tried getContext().getRequest().getRemoteAddr(); bu that just returns 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 (was going to use a web service to get the country from the IP address). Has anyone been able to do this and if so can you point me in the right direction? Thanks again.
Jon
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[Luis Tiago Rico]

You can also use HTML 5 location services from specs!

Post by Joaquin Valdez
I typically get the setting from the browser locale and language.
Joaquin
On Jul 9, 2017, at 11:18 AM, Heather and Jon Turgeon <
Hi all, I am trying to get the users general location server side (the
country). I have tried getContext().getRequest().getRemoteAddr(); bu that
just returns 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 (was going to use a web service to get the
country from the IP address). Has anyone been able to do this and if so
can you point me in the right direction? Thanks again.
Jon
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[Stan Broné]

Straight from the top of my head (and from a bus!)... But isn't this
just happening because you are accessing the website via
http://localhost:8080?

Did you try this from a production server on the internet? I would
expect that to work. Just like I would expect it to return your LAN ip
if you access the website through that (e.g. http://192.168.0.1:8080)

Or maybe I am just way off. It's 11PM trying to get home...

Post by Heather and Jon Turgeon
Hi all, I am trying to get the users general location server side
(the country). I have tried
getContext().getRequest().getRemoteAddr(); bu that just returns
0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 (was going to use a web service to get the country
from the IP address). Has anyone been able to do this and if so can
you point me in the right direction? Thanks again.
Jon

[Rick Grashel]

That IPv6 address is localhost. So you maybe have been trying to access
the site from the server itself. I don't know of any situation (outside of
IP spoofing) where localhost would be returned from that call. Did you
actually try to hit your web service/page from someplace on the public
internet?

Regardless, getRemoteAddr() is not fully dependable anyways. If it were
me, I would first check for the presence of an "X-Forwarded-For" header and
use that. If that is null (or if it is not a valid IP address -- or a
listing of IP addresses/ranges), then fall back to getRemoteAddr(). You
could even check one against the other.

If you are fronting your own application server with a load balancer or
firewall, then you will undoubtedly need to use the "X-Forwarded-For"
header. Otherwise, the getRemoteAddr() will return the IP address of your
own firewall.

-- Rick


On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Heather and Jon Turgeon <

Post by Heather and Jon Turgeon
Hi all, I am trying to get the users general location server side (the
country). I have tried getContext().getRequest().getRemoteAddr(); bu that
just returns 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 (was going to use a web service to get the
country from the IP address). Has anyone been able to do this and if so
can you point me in the right direction? Thanks again.
Jon
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