how to get the client's bowser URL who's hitting your service from ajax call?

[subodh gupta]

I have a service which is being hit by a ajax call from the client i need to know there web address is there any way to do this?

[David O'Meara]

check the referer HTTP header
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer

This value is not 100% correct since clients can block or fake it, but it is your best and easiest guess.

[Ulf Dittmer]

javax.servlet.ServletRequest#getRemoteAddr()

[David O'Meara]

The OP is asking for the browser URL, not the client external IP

[subodh gupta]

@Ulf i am not looking for IP

@David this is not fool proof so many a times i might get nothing

[David O'Meara]

Do you also provide the JS that creates the Ajax call? you could use that to get the client URL and return that value in the the Ajax payload. People may not like it and could consider it 'snooping'.
Personally I'd stick with the referer unless it was proven to be unreliable.

[Ulf Dittmer]

subodh gupta wrote:@Ulf i am not looking for IP

I see. "web address" *can* mean the IP address, though.

[Bear Bibeault]

Yeah, "web address" is pretty ambiguous.

In any case, why do you need this? Maybe there's another way to solve the proble.