I have developed a web service and host it on my server and I would like to know who is using this web service (site Url). I tryed to use “Request.UrlReferrer” but it is not returning any thing! any suggestions/Advices?
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I have developed a web service and host it on my server and I would like to know who is using this web service (site Url). I tryed to use “Request.UrlReferrer” but it is not returning any thing! any suggestions/Advices?
You can’t get the URL of the caller of a web service as not all callers have canonical URL’s. You can however get the IP Addresses assuming that they are not behind a proxy / nat. In which case you’d get the IP of the nat / proxy.
Assuming your using an ASMX web service you can this from:
Once you have the IP Address you can try and do a reverse lookup to get the host name. I would recommend storing the IP address then writting an offline process which goes and tries to determine who owns the IP. I’m sure there are some webservices out there to help with this.