How do you find out what client machine is making a request to your servlet? Technology Community › Category: Java › How do you find out what client machine is making a request to your servlet? 0 Vote Up Vote Down VietMX Staff asked 4 years ago The ServletRequest class has functions for finding out the IP address or host name of the client machine. getRemoteAddr() gets the IP address of the client machine and getRemoteHost() gets the host name of the client machine. See example here.