How can I find out the address of an external request that calls the API directly?

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How can I find out the address of an external request to the API of the application? I went through all the $_SERVER variables, but I can only get the address of the application itself. How can I find out the address of an external request that calls the API directly?

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I don’t think there’s a way to do this. You could get the ip address calling the API, though.

An alternative would be to give each service who can call the API a code to use as a parameter so you can differentiate who is using the endpoint.

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Hi, Ben

That's exactly what I'm doing at the moment, but I need an address for statistical purposes.

Can you tell a little more about this? An ip address is quite suitable for me (I understand that there may be situations of different users who use the same ip address).

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I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but you can use $_SERVER.REMOTE_ADDR to get the IP address of the incoming HTTP request. Is that what you’re looking for?