Get remote IP address at connection timeout

[Marc-André Laverdière]

You could maybe store it preventively in a ChannelLocal ?

Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE
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2010/7/19 royce123 <pmhalm at mytum.de>:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> i am really new to netty, but for now i already like its performance.
> But there is something that bothers me:
> If there happens a connection timeout and i am catching the exception i'd
> like to have the remote host's ip address to process the further error
> handling.
>
> i am implementing the SimpleChannelHandler Interface and overwrite this
> method:
> public void exceptionCaught(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ExceptionEvent e) {
>
>                InetSocketAddress remote =
> InetSocketAddress)e.getChannel().getRemoteAddress();
>
>                String clientIP = remote.getAddress().getHostAddress();
>                e.getChannel().close();
>
>        }
>
> As you can see, i am trying to get the ip adress, but it always results as
> NULL probably because netty does not know the address anymore.
> Can you tell me any solution how i cat the ip address of the client who
> caused the timeout
> exception.
>
> Any hints would really be appreciated.
>
> thank you,
>
> best regards
>
> royce123
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