I need to log the IP address of every user of my webapp, that I've created with Python and Flask.
I'm using
request.remote_addr
But that's return the IP address of the server the app is deployed to. Any fixes to this?
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How do you deploy the flask application?
I guess you deploy your app via a reverse-proxy server like nginx, right?
If you did that then request.remote_addr is the address of your server because your server sent client's request to your application and sent the response to the client.
To fix this, see: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.11/deploying/wsgi-standalone/#proxy-setups
The easiest way to get the user's(also known as client) IP is to set this as a variable or use it directly.
request.environ['REMOTE_ADDR']
To get your server's IP:
request.remote_addr
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