My research indicates that Tomcat, by default, has a configuration
parameter called enableLookups. By default this is false. Under such
circumstances an invocation of request.getRemoteHost() (when the host
is the localhost) returns 127.0.0.1 (or 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 if you're
running Mac OS X).
If I change enableLookups to true, request.getRemoteHost() returns the
string localhost as expected.
When I deploy my web application to GlassFish and cause the same JSP
code to run, I get the IP address as I would by default in Tomcat.
How do I configure GlassFish to enable lookups in the way that Tomcat
behaves?
Andy Knight
Principal Engineer,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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