1 Reply Latest reply on May 18, 2012 1:13 AM by urug

JBoss AS 7.1 custom login module - obtain client IP address

urug May 17, 2012 1:41 PM

I have a custom login module that has business logic tied to integration with other systems. It extends UsernamePasswordLoginModule. I need access to the source IP address of the received HTTP request (could be end client, or the last hop that inserted the IP). I used to do this using FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest().getRemoteAddr(). However, in JBoss AS7.1, FacesContext is null. How can the IP address be retrieved? Is there a way to get access to the Tomcat (catalina) request object that (for some reason) is not passed through?

For reference - https://community.jboss.org/message/631116

Thanks

1. Re: JBoss AS 7.1 custom login module - obtain client IP address

urug May 18, 2012 1:13 AM (in response to urug)

Solved this by using a Catalina custom authenticator for Basic/Form and other types of authentication - overrode the authenticate method to set a ThreadLocal context that other components use further up the chain.

https://community.jboss.org/wiki/DRAFTUsingJBossNegotiationOnAS7

public class MyAuthenticator extends org.apache.catalina.authenticator.BasicAuthenticator
{
....

    @Override
    public boolean authenticate(Request request, HttpServletResponse response, LoginConfig config) throws IOException
    {
        MyServletContext.setContext(request, response); // Servlet context stores ThreadLocal request/response for others to query/retrieve
        try
        {
            return super.authenticate(request, response, config);
        }
        finally
        {
            MyServletContext.removeContext();
        }
    }

....
}

Message was edited by: Guru Somadder
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