If you're not coming from a proxy and hitting the app server directly, you'd use...

		wutwutwat 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is X-Forwarded-For and when can you trust it?... If you're not coming from a proxy and hitting the app server directly, you'd use the connection info directly. Most servers and languages expose this as a variable called `REMOTE_ADDR`

Yes, this is step 2, the first iteration.