Python, Flask client ip address

Question

I need to log the IP address of every user of my webapp, that I've created with Python and Flask.

I'm using

request.remote_addr

But that's return the IP address of the server the app is deployed to. Any fixes to this?

Solution

How do you deploy the flask application?

I guess you deploy your app via a reverse-proxy server like nginx, right?

If you did that then request.remote_addr is the address of your server because your server sent client's request to your application and sent the response to the client.

To fix this, see: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.11/deploying/wsgi-standalone/#proxy-setups

Comments

[javad]

Possible duplicate of Get IP address of visitors using Python + Flask

[Brian]

I deploy the app with supervisor on AWS

[Brian]

Actually, I found out that this request.headers.get('X-Forwarded-For', request.remote_addr) works well for my needs

[Arel]

request.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] and request.remote_addr are the same thing (and not solving the problem the OP asked about.)