How to get Client IP address using ASP.NET
This is one of the common query asked in many forums and I saw people giving different answer for this query. So I thought I will clarify this here.
I will start with the most common answer we can see for this query,
string ipAddress = HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"];
Response.Write("Client machine IP:-"+ipAddress);
I wonder people are really checking this code and the output of this code if client is using proxy!!!!
Above code will always give 127.0.0.1 that is the default localhost IP Address.
If you are using proxy then above code will not work.
What we have to do in that case is get the machine name first and find the IP address by passing the machine name like below,
string strMachineName = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();
string IPAddress = System.Net.Dns.GetHostAddresses(strMachineName).GetValue(0).ToString();
Response.Write("Client machine Name"+ strMachineName);
Response.Write("Client machine IP Address"+ IPAddress);
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Nice post Asshej..
what does this exactly gives Us the result.
System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();