In version 2.4 of Apache the API changed 1 from remote_addr() to client_addr() but there is a bit more trickery, which is where I am stuck, than just converting from:

my $clientIP = $r->connection()->remote_ip()

to:

my $clientIP = $r->connection()->client_addr();

When printing $clientIP to a log file now I get:

APR::SockAddr=SCALAR(0x7f205425ecf8)

if I dereference this I just get an integer thus that's not useful. In the documentation 2 for mod_perl I found get_ip, but this does not exists and the doc is for 2.0, not 2.4.

So, who knows how I turn $r->connection()->client_addr(), where $r is the request object into an IP address?

Thanks,

1 https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/developer/new_api_2_4.html

2 https://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/APR/SockAddr.html

In reply to Getting the client IP in Apache, version 2.4 by rjschwei

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