How to get IpAddress and UserAgent in ASP.NET Web API get methods

Question

I am using ASP.NET Web Api to expose a few GET methods.

But before I return the data I need to log a couple of details to the db, of which few of them are as listed below :

• Caller's Ip
• Caller's User Agent
• Caller's Used Url

Now in the controller when I used to do this I used to use the following code,

var ipAddress = Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"];
var userAgent = Request.UserAgent;

But here in Web API I am unable to use this.

Can anyone please help me out with this.

Answer 1

I figured it out,

public static LogModel GetApiLogDetails() {     var logModel = new LogModel();     logModel.TimeStamp   = DateTime.Now;     logModel.CallerIp    = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;     logModel.CallerAgent = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserAgent;     logModel.CalledUrl   = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.OriginalString;     return logModel; } 

with a little help from

Get Web Api consumer IP Address and HostName in ASP.NET Web API &

Get the IP address of the remote host

Answer 2

You should use HttpRequestMessage class, that conteins all data you need.

Read more:

• How to get IP adress
• Extension methods for HttpRequestMessage
• MSDN