Tide: Get remote address / requester IP

[milesgranger]

Question

Is there a way to obtain the remote IP of the incoming request?

Would have imagined something like what actix-web does without going through the headers?

async fn echo_remote(mut ctx: Context<()>) -> String {
    ctx.connection_info().remote().to_owned()
}

[yoshuawuyts]

Related issue: https://github.com/rustasync/http-service/issues/25.

@milesgranger we definitely want to add this, but it requires wrangling Hyper into allowing us to access this value, which has proven to be slightly challenging.

[yoshuawuyts]

Note from triage: we're still blocked on this by Hyper.

[ZakisM]

Any update on this?

[yoshuawuyts]

Given that we're constructing our own TcpListener now, we could probably find a way to pass it through to the end-user (:

Haven't fixed this yet though.

[meain]

I believe this can be closed now. There is now:

req.peer_addr()

https://github.com/http-rs/tide/blob/1797c0ed648dd2d28fda2e18d5432bd4eaf2150c/src/request.rs#L118

[jbr]

Not only is there Request::peer_addr, but there's also Request::remote, which includes some additional sources of that information when tide is running behind a reverse proxy:

    /// Get the remote address for this request.
    ///
    /// This is determined in the following priority:
    /// 1. `Forwarded` header `for` key
    /// 2. The first `X-Forwarded-For` header
    /// 3. Peer address of the transport