I need to identify if a request comes from Internet or Intranet using either client-side or server-side.
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None of the answers are good or correct.
You can convert the IP (IPv4 only - IPv6 is UInt128) into a UInt32 value, and then you can check if the requesting IP is somewhere in the private IP ranges:
e.g. you can use that to set the cookies to "Secure", if it's not intranet.
For Each thisCookie As System.Web.HttpCookie In response.Cookies
thisCookie.HttpOnly = True
Dim ipString As String = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress
If Not IPv4Info.IsPrivateIp(ipString) Then
thisCookie.Secure = True
End If
Next thisCookie
VB.NET Class, which you can convert into C# yourselfs (http://converter.telerik.com)
Public Class IPv4Info
Private Class IPv4Range
Public RangeStart As UInt32
Public RangeEnd As UInt32
End Class
' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
' https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918
' 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (65,536 IP addresses)
' 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (1,048,576 IP addresses)
' 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (16,777,216 IP addresses)
Private Shared Rng127 As IPv4Range = New IPv4Range() With {.RangeStart = GetIpNum("127.0.0.0"), .RangeEnd = GetIpNum("127.255.255.255")}
Private Shared Rng192 As IPv4Range = New IPv4Range() With {.RangeStart = GetIpNum("192.168.0.0"), .RangeEnd = GetIpNum("192.168.255.255")} ' CIDR: 192.168.0.0/16 (255.255.0.0)
Private Shared Rng172 As IPv4Range = New IPv4Range() With {.RangeStart = GetIpNum("172.16.0.0"), .RangeEnd = GetIpNum("172.31.255.255")} ' CIDR: 172.16.0.0/12 (255.240.0.0)
Private Shared Rng10 As IPv4Range = New IPv4Range() With {.RangeStart = GetIpNum("10.0.0.0"), .RangeEnd = GetIpNum("10.255.255.255")} ' CIDR: 10.0.0.0/8 (255.0.0.0)
' http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36831/how-do-you-parse-an-ip-address-string-to-a-uint-value-in-c
Public Shared Function GetIpNum(ipString As String) As UInt32
Dim ipAddress__1 As System.Net.IPAddress = System.Net.IPAddress.Parse("some.ip.address")
Dim ipBytes As Byte() = ipAddress__1.GetAddressBytes()
Dim ip As UInt32 = CUInt(ipBytes(0)) << 24
ip += CUInt(ipBytes(1)) << 16
ip += CUInt(ipBytes(2)) << 8
ip += CUInt(ipBytes(3))
Return ip
End Function
Public Shared Function isIn127(ipString As String) As Boolean
Dim ip As UInt32 = GetIpNum(ipString)
Return isIn127(ip)
End Function
Public Shared Function isIn127(x As UInt32) As Boolean
If x >= Rng127.RangeStart AndAlso x <= Rng127.RangeEnd Then
Return True
End If
Return False
End Function
Public Shared Function isIn192(ipString As String) As Boolean
Dim ip As UInt32 = GetIpNum(ipString)
Return isIn192(ip)
End Function
Public Shared Function isIn192(x As UInt32) As Boolean
If x >= Rng192.RangeStart AndAlso x <= Rng192.RangeEnd Then
Return True
End If
Return False
End Function
Public Shared Function isIn172(ipString As String) As Boolean
Dim ip As UInt32 = GetIpNum(ipString)
Return isIn172(ip)
End Function
Public Shared Function isIn172(x As UInt32) As Boolean
If x >= Rng172.RangeStart AndAlso x <= Rng172.RangeEnd Then
Return True
End If
Return False
End Function
Public Shared Function isIn10(ipString As String) As Boolean
Dim ip As UInt32 = GetIpNum(ipString)
Return isIn10(ip)
End Function
Public Shared Function isIn10(x As UInt32) As Boolean
If x >= Rng10.RangeStart AndAlso x <= Rng10.RangeEnd Then
Return True
End If
Return False
End Function
' string ipString = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;
Public Shared Function IsPrivateIp(ipString As String) As Boolean
Dim ip As UInt32 = GetIpNum(ipString)
Return IsPrivateIp(ip)
End Function
Public Shared Function IsPrivateIp(ip As UInt32) As Boolean
If isIn127(ip) OrElse isIn192(ip) OrElse isIn172(ip) OrElse isIn10(ip) Then
Return True
End If
Return False
End Function
End Class
Note: For doing this with UInt128, there's a good implementation of UInt128 in NaCl.NET.
Use the Request.UserHostAddress property to determine whether the request came from a public or private network
You can check the ip address of a user. Private ip4 address always start with either 10., or 172., or 192.* ... more info on private networks here.
You can also make Google Analytics load Asynchronous.
***************** UPDATE - PLEASE READ *************************************
As @igor-turman has correctly pointed out, that only a portion of the "172" and the "192" address ranges are designated for private use. The remaining ip addresses starting with 172 and 192 ARE PUBLIC.
Here is the regex expression to check for private IP addresses:
(^192\.168\.([0-9]|[0-9][0-9]|[0-2][0-5][0-5])\.([0-9]|[0-9][0-9]|[0-2][0-5][0-5])$)|(^172\.([1][6-9]|[2][0-9]|[3][0-1])\.([0-9]|[0-9][0-9]|[0-2][0-5][0-5])\.([0-9]|[0-9][0-9]|[0-2][0-5][0-5])$)|(^10\.([0-9]|[0-9][0-9]|[0-2][0-5][0-5])\.([0-9]|[0-9][0-9]|[0-2][0-5][0-5])\.([0-9]|[0-9][0-9]|[0-2][0-5][0-5])$)
You can test this regex on regexpal.com here.
This is how I would do the ip check:
string ipString = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;
byte[] ipBytes = System.Net.IPAddress.Parse(ipString).GetAddressBytes();
int ip = System.BitConverter.ToInt32(ipBytes, 0);
// your network ip range
string ipStringFrom = "192.168.1.0";
byte[] ipBytesFrom = System.Net.IPAddress.Parse(ipStringFrom).GetAddressBytes();
int ipFrom = System.BitConverter.ToInt32(ipBytesFrom, 0);
string ipStringTo = "192.168.1.255";
byte[] ipBytesTo= System.Net.IPAddress.Parse(ipStringTo).GetAddressBytes();
int ipTo = System.BitConverter.ToInt32(ipBytesFrom, 0);
bool clientIsOnLAN = ipFrom >= ip && ip <= ipTo;
If you have multiple subnets, just do the same for them (from, to), then add to the bool condition above. I just realized that, in your case, the above may be an overkill.
Alternatively, for you, it might be as simple as:
bool isOnLAN = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress.StartsWith("192.168.1.")