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And finding the descriptive host ?

Posted by Salil V Gangal on September 04, 2000 at 11:23 AM

Hi Jeff,

It works ! Thanks.

Okay, my next question is how to figure out the user's host's description. This is not the same as the IP. Generally Java Servlet call request.getRemoteHost() will result in this. But not always. The way to overcome this in Perl/CGI is to use gethostbyaddr($address, 2) where the $address is the 'packed' array of user's IP.

Any inputs about what's the equivalent approach in Java Servlets ?

Regards,
Salil V Gangal

• Do any of these work? Jeff Kinsey September 04, 2000 at 12:22 PM (1)
  • Re: Do any of these work? - Nope Salil V Gangal September 04, 2000 at 12:58 PM (0)