[c#] How to get a user's client IP address in ASP.NET?

All of the responses so far take into account the non-standardized, but very common, X-Forwarded-For header. There is a standardized Forwarded header which is a little more difficult to parse out. Some examples are as follows:

Forwarded: for="_gazonk"
Forwarded: For="[2001:db8:cafe::17]:4711"
Forwarded: for=192.0.2.60;proto=http;by=203.0.113.43
Forwarded: for=192.0.2.43, for=198.51.100.17

I have written a class that takes both of these headers into account when determining a client's IP address.

using System;
using System.Web;

namespace Util
{
    public static class IP
    {
        public static string GetIPAddress()
        {
            return GetIPAddress(new HttpRequestWrapper(HttpContext.Current.Request));
        }

        internal static string GetIPAddress(HttpRequestBase request)
        {
            // handle standardized 'Forwarded' header
            string forwarded = request.Headers["Forwarded"];
            if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(forwarded))
            {
                foreach (string segment in forwarded.Split(',')[0].Split(';'))
                {
                    string[] pair = segment.Trim().Split('=');
                    if (pair.Length == 2 && pair[0].Equals("for", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                    {
                        string ip = pair[1].Trim('"');

                        // IPv6 addresses are always enclosed in square brackets
                        int left = ip.IndexOf('['), right = ip.IndexOf(']');
                        if (left == 0 && right > 0)
                        {
                            return ip.Substring(1, right - 1);
                        }

                        // strip port of IPv4 addresses
                        int colon = ip.IndexOf(':');
                        if (colon != -1)
                        {
                            return ip.Substring(0, colon);
                        }

                        // this will return IPv4, "unknown", and obfuscated addresses
                        return ip;
                    }
                }
            }

            // handle non-standardized 'X-Forwarded-For' header
            string xForwardedFor = request.Headers["X-Forwarded-For"];
            if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(xForwardedFor))
            {
                return xForwardedFor.Split(',')[0];
            }

            return request.UserHostAddress;
        }
    }
}

Below are some unit tests that I used to validate my solution:

using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Web;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace UtilTests
{
    [TestClass]
    public class IPTests
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public void TestForwardedObfuscated()
        {
            var request = new HttpRequestMock("for=\"_gazonk\"");
            Assert.AreEqual("_gazonk", Util.IP.GetIPAddress(request));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestForwardedIPv6()
        {
            var request = new HttpRequestMock("For=\"[2001:db8:cafe::17]:4711\"");
            Assert.AreEqual("2001:db8:cafe::17", Util.IP.GetIPAddress(request));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestForwardedIPv4()
        {
            var request = new HttpRequestMock("for=192.0.2.60;proto=http;by=203.0.113.43");
            Assert.AreEqual("192.0.2.60", Util.IP.GetIPAddress(request));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestForwardedIPv4WithPort()
        {
            var request = new HttpRequestMock("for=192.0.2.60:443;proto=http;by=203.0.113.43");
            Assert.AreEqual("192.0.2.60", Util.IP.GetIPAddress(request));
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestForwardedMultiple()
        {
            var request = new HttpRequestMock("for=192.0.2.43, for=198.51.100.17");
            Assert.AreEqual("192.0.2.43", Util.IP.GetIPAddress(request));
        }
    }

    public class HttpRequestMock : HttpRequestBase
    {
        private NameValueCollection headers = new NameValueCollection();

        public HttpRequestMock(string forwarded)
        {
            headers["Forwarded"] = forwarded;
        }

        public override NameValueCollection Headers
        {
            get { return this.headers; }
        }
    }
}

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