Getting the client IP in Apache, version 2.4

[rjschwei]

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

[Corion]

It's not get_ip but ip_get, at least according to APR::SockAddr.

[rjschwei]

Yeah obviously I turned things around in my original message. However, the problem description is correct:

Can't locate object method "ip_get" via package "APR::SockAddr"

So with Apache 2.4 the documentation and implementation are out of kilter.

[rjschwei]

OK, answering my own question.

use APR::SockAddr;

is obviously required, after which

$r->connection()->client_addr()->ip_get;

Works as expected.

Sorry for the noise