Get Client IP Address ASP.NET

How to get IP Host Address of remote Client

 // To get IP of the client meachine
        // There is two methods to obtain IP address
       
        // Method 1
        //     Gets the IP host address of the remote client.
        // Returns:
        //     The IP address of the remote client.
        string ipMethod1 = Request.UserHostAddress; // HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;

        //Methord 2
        //Request.ServerVariables is a Name Value Collection
        //     Gets a collection of Web server variables.
        // Returns:
        //     A System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection of server variables.
        string ipMethod2 = Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"]; //HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"];
        Response.Write(ipAdddress);

City State Country and more From IP Address ASP.NET

IP Address Details in XML Format.

I check too many sites for free IP details provides, But i didn't get a good one. finally i got a url "http://ipinfodb.com/" thats work fine and get correct details including City, State, Country, Latitude, Longitude, Timezone and more from IP Address.

The request url is "http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=IPADDR" . Response comes in XML format. using xml deserialize i deserialize the response.

Below image shown the XML response

To get IPAddress of a client machine using ASP.NET is
string ipAddress = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;

Main classes

IPLocater class contains all properties of XML Response.this class is used for desirialization.


[XmlRootAttribute(ElementName = "Response", IsNullable = false)]

public class IPLocator
{

private string longitude;
public string Longitude
{
get { return longitude; }
set { longitude = value; }
}

private string latitude;
public string Latitude
{
get { return latitude; }
set { latitude = value; }
}

private string zip;
public string Zip
{
get { return zip; }
set { zip = value; }
}

private string ip;
public string IP
{
get { return ip; }
set { ip = value; }
}
}


After deserialization IPLocater class bind All properties of requested IP Address.

Binding Class is return IPLocater class.


Code of IPDetals Class

public class IPDetails
{

public IPLocator GetData(string ipAddress)
{
IPLocator ipLoc = new IPLocator();
try
{
string path = "http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=" + ipAddress;
WebClient client = new WebClient();
string[] eResult = client.DownloadString(path).ToString().Split(',');
if(eResult.Length>0)
ipLoc = (IPLocator)Deserialize(eResult[0].ToString());
}
catch
{ }
return ipLoc;
}

//Desrialize XML String


private Object Deserialize(String pXmlizedString)
{
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(IPLocator));
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(StringToUTF8ByteArray(pXmlizedString));
XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8);
return xs.Deserialize(memoryStream);
}

//String to UTF8ByteArray
private Byte[] StringToUTF8ByteArray(String pXmlString)
{
UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
Byte[] byteArray = encoding.GetBytes(pXmlString);
return byteArray;
}
}


Implementation


string ipAddress = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;
IPDetails ipDetails=new IPDetails ();
IPLocator ipLocater = ipDetails.GetData(ipAddress);
Response.Write(ipLocater.CountryName);



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