How to determine IP used by client connecting to INADDR_ANY listener socket in C
- by codebox_rob
I have a network server application written in C, the listener is bound using INADDR_ANY so it can accept connections via any of the IP addresses of the host on which it is installed.
I need to determine which of the server's IP addresses the client used when establishing its connection - actually I just need to know whether they connected via the loopback address 127.0.0.1 or not.
Partial code sample as follows (I can post the whole thing if it helps):
static struct sockaddr_in serverAddress;
serverAddress.sin_family = AF_INET;
serverAddress.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
serverAddress.sin_port = htons(port);
bind(listener, (struct sockaddr *) &serverAddress, sizeof(serverAddress));
listen(listener, CONNECTION_BACKLOG);
SOCKET socketfd;
static struct sockaddr_in clientAddress;
...
socketfd = accept(listener, (struct sockaddr *) &clientAddress, &length);
