Retrieving client ip from RPC-style web service

Question

Hi,
I've got an rpc-style web service and I would like to log the incoming client
ip address (i.e. I need to get at the HTTPRequest object). Can this be done by
passing some kind of SOAP context parameter in the argument list of my exposed
methods? If this is not doable, is implementing SOAP message handlers the way
to to go? I would rather not do the latter, as the web service is working well
and don't want to play with my code too much.
Thanks

Answer 1

I tried this, following the example in http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs70/webapp/filters.html,
but I still can't get it to work. The init() method gets called, but doFilter(ServletRequest
req, ServletResponse resp, FilterChain fc) does not. The "filter" part of my
web.xml looks like:
<filter>
<filter-name>serviceFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>webservices.ServiceFilterImpl</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>serviceFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/myPattern/myWebService</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
The only thing I could thing of is that maybe my url-pattern is wrong, although
this seems unlikely as my web service is able to process requests sent using
http://myWLSMachine:7001/myPattern/myWebService.
In fact, in the the WLS access.log file, I have:
[07/Oct/2002:11:51:01 -0400] "POST /myPattern/myWebService HTTP/1.0" 200 3011.
Do you know if there's something in the JAX-RPC API that I could use to get at
the client ip address? I dug through the documentation and came across something
called "ServletEndpointContext", but I'm not sure if this will do the trick.
Thanks for your time,
Danielle
"manoj cheenath" <[email protected]> wrote:
One way to do this may be to write a servlet filter
and map the filter to the URL of your service.
regards,
-manoj
"Danielle Vella" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hi,
I've got an rpc-style web service and I would like to log the incomingclient
ip address (i.e. I need to get at the HTTPRequest object). Can thisbe
done by
passing some kind of SOAP context parameter in the argument list ofmy
exposed
methods? If this is not doable, is implementing SOAP message handlersthe
way
to to go? I would rather not do the latter, as the web service isworking
well
and don't want to play with my code too much.
Thanks