how to get users ip address in java

Question

While this may seem simple, i have tried the usual request.getRemoteAddr(), request.getRemoteHost() but i keep getting my servers address. Something about my configuration,

Answer 1

If there's some proxy between you and the user, then you might have to look at the X-Forwarded-For header. Note that this isn't guaranteed to work either, but if you only need "good enough", then it might suffice.