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radhika_kundana
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3 years ago

Endpoint: External api gives in correct json data

Hi, I am able to retrieve user location using bing api. Environment: staging Issue here is:  When I try to call bing api with Ajax, it gives me correct user location.  When I call same api using ...
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    radhika_kundana
    3 years ago

    Thanks for your inputs.

    I was able to make it work by passing ip address in headers.

    <#assign response = http.client.request("api").header("X-FORWARDED-FOR",ipaddress).get()/>

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MattV
Khoros Staff

http.client.request makes the call from the server the community is running on, so the result returned would be the location for the server, not the user. If the Bing API lets you pass an IP or something then you'd have to get the users IP with freemarker and pass that to the Bing API.

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radhika_kundana
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3 years ago

Thankyou MattV for reply.

How can I get users(anonymous/logged in user) Ipaddress in freemarker? 

below request provides server IP address but not users. 

${http.request.remoteAddr}