{"id":15378,"date":"2024-03-15T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-java-retrieve-the-requests-ip-address\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:06:10","slug":"how-can-java-retrieve-the-requests-ip-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-java-retrieve-the-requests-ip-address\/","title":{"rendered":"How can Java retrieve the request&#8217;s IP address?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Java, you can use the following code to get the IP address of a request:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code class=\"lang-java\">import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;\r\n\r\npublic String getIpAddress(HttpServletRequest request) {\r\n   String ipAddress = request.getHeader(\"X-Forwarded-For\");\r\n   if (ipAddress == null || ipAddress.length() == 0 || \"unknown\".equalsIgnoreCase(ipAddress)) {\r\n       ipAddress = request.getHeader(\"Proxy-Client-IP\");\r\n   }\r\n   if (ipAddress == null || ipAddress.length() == 0 || \"unknown\".equalsIgnoreCase(ipAddress)) {\r\n       ipAddress = request.getHeader(\"WL-Proxy-Client-IP\");\r\n   }\r\n   if (ipAddress == null || ipAddress.length() == 0 || \"unknown\".equalsIgnoreCase(ipAddress)) {\r\n       ipAddress = request.getRemoteAddr();\r\n   }\r\n   return ipAddress;\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This code examines the HTTP header information to attempt to retrieve the requested IP address. 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