Hacker warning: No call to get the remote client IP in server or AP mode

Official Hardware Retired WiFi Shield 101
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A fundamental for all html server applications is a call to get the IP address of the remote client.

This address is used to:

  1. log the details of the client
  2. facilitate basic IP blocking against hackers

Strangely there is a remote ip call in the wifi101 udp library ( WiFiUDP.remoteIP() ) and nothing for server/client applications.

Previous arduino wifi/ethernet libraries have supported remoteip for servers.

I would like to see the situation remedied and would be interested to read comments from others.

David

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You are right, I was proting some arduino library using WiFi 101 and there you have it, no remoteIp or remotePort on TCP, only the UDP class.

Hummm :o :confused:

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A solution is now in place:

See Get the Remote IP and port from the server- solved - WiFi Shield 101 - Arduino Forum