Comments on: How to Get a Client IP Address in DJANGO

By: Elf M. Sternberg

Elf M. Sternberg — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:32:09 +0000

The easiest way to get both is:

ip_address = request.META.get(‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’, ”) or request.META.get(‘REMOTE_ADDR’)

By: Elf M. Sternberg

Elf M. Sternberg — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0000

Um, no.

You’re behind a proxy. That’s why you’re getting these two different values. If your site was completely fronted to the Internet and your instance of Apache or whatever was your contact point with your clients, then your REMOTE_ADDR would be correct. In that case, HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR would be blank, because you had not been forwarded the request from a proxy.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:26:50 +0000

The method HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR is using server, into localhost faul.

Exemple:

from django.http import HttpRequest

def mypage(request):
try:
# case server 200.000.02.001
client_address = request.META['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']
except:
# case localhost ou 127.0.0.1
client_address = request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:47:40 +0000

Was getting the same with REMOTE_ADDR, but works perfectly with HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR in my Django apps. Thanks for that!