title: How do you get Client IP Address in a Grails controller?
body: <p>I had code like this in Ruby:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@clientipaddress = request.env["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"]
  if (@clientipaddress == nil)
    @clientipaddress = request.env["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]
  end
  if (@clientipaddress == nil)
    @clientipaddress = request.env["REMOTE_ADDR"]
  end
  if (@clientipaddress != nil)
    comma = @clientipaddress.index(",")
    if (comma != nil &amp;&amp; comma &gt;= 0)
      @clientipaddress = @clientipaddress[0, comma]
    end
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It took care of all the possible ways that the IP might show up.  For instance, on my local development machine, there is no proxy.  But in QA and Production the proxies are there, and sometimes they provide more than one address.</p>
  
  <p>I don't need to know the Groovy syntax, just which methods get me the equivalent of the three different ways I ask for the IP above.</p>