How do I obtain the IP address of a user in Flask?

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I currently use
request.remote_addr to get an IP Address but I keep getting 172.18.0.1

Is replit blocking this?

Answered by notGilbert (121) [earned 5 cycles]

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Replit uses a proxy that messes with the request's IP address, so that's not possible

@notGilbert Do you know of any other way I can rate limit my API? Could I still obtain their User Agent?

maybe you could implement an api key system?

@notGilbert i can’t do it since its a website to submit forms and responses

@ProgrammingMyLi user authentication? i guess that's the only way that's allowed on replit

psst none of this stuff is allowed by tos @notGilbert

psst you can fix it by making a custom domain so it isn't restricted by replit

but this is against tos, so don't ever publicly release ips.

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I mean like if you mess by creating the repl enviorment inside of a repl you could get it working without the proxy interfearing

@novaflippers The proxy is likely running outside the VM, in which case that wouldn't work.

As far as I know, you can't collect IP's in replit. It's against the TOS anyway, so if you figure out how to do it you might get your repl removed.