How do I get the Source IP of a SOAP requesting client machine?

Question

how do you get source ip, username, password, etc... of the client machine that sends a soap request? is there any of these details that one can pull for logging purposes?

I am using Java to handle the incoming SOAP requests. The service simply adds 2 numbers and is working, but I just need to get some client details.

Thanks, Lavanya

Answer 1

If you're using JAX-WS, inject a WebServiceContext like so:

import javax.annotation.Resource
import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceContext;
import javax.xml.ws.handler.MessageContext;


@WebService()
public class Test
{
  @Resource WebServiceContext context;

  @WebMethod(operationName = "getInfo")
  public String getInfo()
  {
    HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)context.getMessageContext().get(MessageContext.SERVLET_REQUEST);
    return "IP: "+request.getRemoteAddr()+", Port: "+request.getRemotePort()+", Host: "+request.getRemoteHost();
  }
}

Will return something like:

IP: 127.0.0.1, Port: 2636, Host: localhost

Look at the API for the rest of the methods. Basically, once you have your HttpServletRequest object, the rest is pretty easy.

Answer 2

I have figured the solution like below -

@Endpoint 
public class DataEndpoints {
....
....
     private HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest;

     @Autowired
     public void setRequest(HttpServletRequest request) {
         this.httpServletRequest = request;
     }


     @PayloadRoot(namespace = employeeNS, localPart = "syncRelation")
     @ResponsePayload
     public SyncRelationResponse dataSync(@RequestPayload SyncOrderRelation request) {
            String incoming = "IP Address -> " + this.httpServletRequest.getRemoteAddr();
     }
}

By using the following method, I can directly access HttpServletRequest. And then I can access all data i need.

I hope it will help someone in this context.