package utils import ( "crypto/md5" "encoding/hex" "net" "net/http" "strings" log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" ) //GenerateClientIDFromRequest generates a client id from the provided request func GenerateClientIDFromRequest(req *http.Request) string { ipAddress := GetIPAddressFromRequest(req) ipAddressComponents := strings.Split(ipAddress, ":") ipAddressComponents[len(ipAddressComponents)-1] = "" clientID := strings.Join(ipAddressComponents, ":") + req.UserAgent() // Create a MD5 hash of this ip + useragent hasher := md5.New() hasher.Write([]byte(clientID)) return hex.EncodeToString(hasher.Sum(nil)) } // GetIPAddressFromRequest returns the IP address from a http request func GetIPAddressFromRequest(req *http.Request) string { ipAddressString := req.RemoteAddr xForwardedFor := req.Header.Get("X-FORWARDED-FOR") if xForwardedFor != "" { return xForwardedFor } ip, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(ipAddressString) if err != nil { log.Errorln(err) return "" } return ip }