Get URL of the request sender with HttpServletRequest

Question

How do you get the source domain using HttpServletRequest? Source domain is the requester\'s domain.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could do either

// gets client (browser)'s hostname
String host = request.getRemoteHost(); 

OR

// get the server's domain name.
String domain = new URL(request.getRequestURL().toString()).getHost();