Client Information

[Scott Elgram]

Hello,
I have a webservice designed in VS 2005 using C#. I would like to know
the URL and the IP addresses of the people who are accessing my service. Is
this a possibility? if so how?

Thanks,
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-Scott

[Robby Valles]

Re: Client Information

Scott,

Please try the following in your webservice class.

Context.Request .UserHostAddres s

That should be available and what you need. Let me know... email me if
you'd like.

Robby Valles

On Oct 29, 1:16 pm, "Scott Elgram" <SElg...@verifp oint.comwrote:

Hello,
I have a webservice designed in VS 2005 using C#. I would like to know
the URL and the IP addresses of the people who are accessing my service. Is
this a possibility? if so how?
>
Thanks,
--
-Scott

[John Saunders [MVP]]

Re: Client Information

"Scott Elgram" <SElgram@verifp oint.comwrote in message
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Hello,
I have a webservice designed in VS 2005 using C#. I would like to know
the URL and the IP addresses of the people who are accessing my service.
Is
this a possibility? if so how?

What do you mean, "URL"? What do you mean, "people"? People don't have URLs,
and URLs don't access web services. Please give us more detail.
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John Saunders | MVP - Windows Server System - Connected System Developer

[Scott]

Re: Client Information

Ok, in detail...
I have created a WebService in VS 2005 using C# that returns the results
of a database search in an XML dataset .
The purpose is to allow clients access to this webservice so that they
can utilize the search options I make public through the webservice. By
doing it this way clients who use this service should be able to incorporate
my data into their website as if it were their own.
What I am trying to record is the URL of the page that accessed the
webservice and the IP of the domain that page is under.
For example:
The company XYZ.com (IP: 111.111.111.111 ) would like to use my data
on their website. using the webservice I have created they access the
webservice through code on www.xyz.com/search.aspx which returns an XML
dataset which they can display on their page.
In this example what I would like to record is "www.xyz.co m/search.aspx"
and "111.111.111.11 1".

Let me know if that still doesn't make sense.
Thanks,
-Scott


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"Scott Elgram" <SElgram@verifp oint.comwrote in message
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Hello,
I have a webservice designed in VS 2005 using C#. I would like to

know

the URL and the IP addresses of the people who are accessing my service.
Is
this a possibility? if so how?

>
What do you mean, "URL"? What do you mean, "people"? People don't have

URLs,

and URLs don't access web services. Please give us more detail.
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John Saunders | MVP - Windows Server System - Connected System Developer
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[Scott]

Re: Client Information

Thanks for your reply and I'm sorry it took so long for me to get back to
this.
I tried what you suggested and I now get the IP address of the site that
is accessing the service. Thank you very much, however, I would also like
to get the name of the page that is calling the service. I tried using
"Context.Reques t.Url.AbsoluteP ath" but all I get is the address of the
services asmx file. i.e. /SiteFolder/Service.asmx

if you can offer any info to resolve this as well it would be much
appreciated.

-Scott

"Robby Valles" <robby.valles@g mail.comwrote in message
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Scott,
>
Please try the following in your webservice class.
>
Context.Request .UserHostAddres s
>
That should be available and what you need. Let me know... email me if
you'd like.
>
Robby Valles
>
On Oct 29, 1:16 pm, "Scott Elgram" <SElg...@verifp oint.comwrote:

Hello,
I have a webservice designed in VS 2005 using C#. I would like to

know

the URL and the IP addresses of the people who are accessing my service.

Is

this a possibility? if so how?

Thanks,
--
-Scott

>
>

[John Saunders [MVP]]

Re: Client Information

"Scott" <Scott@verifpoi nt.comwrote in message
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You missed my purpose.
I am not trying to use this information to identify proper usage. Just
simply collecting data of who is using it and when. If the IP address is
that of a NAT box or some other piece of hardware that is fine. The
people
that have asked me to get this information realize everything that you
have
mentioned and they realize that this information may not always be
accurate
or available. That, however, doe snot stop them from wanting to log it.
For arguments sake, lets say the information I am trying to retrieve is
available due to however the client has set up their site. I have managed
to get the IP address but I am still stuck on how I can get the URL. So
far
I have only been able to retrieve the address of the ASMX file not
whatever
called it.

Scott, there _is_ no URL. What it the client that called your web service
was not a web page? In that case, there would be no URL to pass, so the web
services infrastructure _never_ passes any URL.

Sorry, but if you want to log the URL of the web page that called the web
service, then you'll have to make the web page pass the URL to the service.
This could be done as a parameter to every web service operation, or it
could be done through a custom SOAP Header.
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John Saunders | MVP - Windows Server System - Connected System Developer

[Scott]

Re: Client Information

If the client that called the service is not a page then the variable should
simply be null. But, the main purpose here is so that clients could access
specific functions with the info in our database from a webpage. So
assuming that it is indeed a webpage that calls the web service is there
still no way to get the URL of that page?

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"Scott" <Scott@verifpoi nt.comwrote in message
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You missed my purpose.
I am not trying to use this information to identify proper usage.

Just

simply collecting data of who is using it and when. If the IP address

is

that of a NAT box or some other piece of hardware that is fine. The
people
that have asked me to get this information realize everything that you
have
mentioned and they realize that this information may not always be
accurate
or available. That, however, doe snot stop them from wanting to log it.
For arguments sake, lets say the information I am trying to retrieve

is

available due to however the client has set up their site. I have

managed

to get the IP address but I am still stuck on how I can get the URL. So
far
I have only been able to retrieve the address of the ASMX file not
whatever
called it.

>
Scott, there _is_ no URL. What it the client that called your web service
was not a web page? In that case, there would be no URL to pass, so the

web

services infrastructure _never_ passes any URL.
>
Sorry, but if you want to log the URL of the web page that called the web
service, then you'll have to make the web page pass the URL to the

service.

This could be done as a parameter to every web service operation, or it
could be done through a custom SOAP Header.
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>

[John Saunders [MVP]]

Re: Client Information

"Scott" <Scott@verifpoi nt.comwrote in message
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If the client that called the service is not a page then the variable
should
simply be null. But, the main purpose here is so that clients could
access
specific functions with the info in our database from a webpage. So
assuming that it is indeed a webpage that calls the web service is there
still no way to get the URL of that page?

No. Not unless the page sends it to the service.

Remember that a web service simply receives some XML sent by some code.
There's nothing to indicate whether the code was a page, or which page it
was.
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John Saunders | MVP - Windows Server System - Connected System Developer

[Scott]

Re: Client Information

Thanks, I'll have to just be happy woth the IP address then

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"Scott" <Scott@verifpoi nt.comwrote in message
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If the client that called the service is not a page then the variable
should
simply be null. But, the main purpose here is so that clients could
access
specific functions with the info in our database from a webpage. So
assuming that it is indeed a webpage that calls the web service is there
still no way to get the URL of that page?

>
No. Not unless the page sends it to the service.
>
Remember that a web service simply receives some XML sent by some code.
There's nothing to indicate whether the code was a page, or which page it
was.
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