I have a cherrypy server on a machine, and i want to get the client identifier from the request. Now i can get the client IP by cherrypy.request.remote.ip, but if the client user use a proxy then the IP address will be the proxy address that i don't want, so is there any way for getting the host name of the client machine or some other ways to distiguish the client identifier
Original client IP is usually passed along by proxy with X-Forwarded-For header. You can either study the header or use tools.proxy setting to automatically rewrite cherrypy.request.remote.ip. See cherrypy.lib.cptools.proxy for details.