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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by plexicle on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @02:47PM (#11724635)
Hello there. I love Firebase. Use it every day.

The one big request I've always had was to be able to grab the client's IP address on request. Is that possible with this new Firebase and GCE integration?

I have many Firebase apps. Most of them have an intermediate server solely for this one reason.

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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by velohx on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:30PM (#11725045)
That's a feature I would also really like.

I also use an intermediate server (ipify.org) to get the IP address. The only reason I need the IP address is to throttle users. If adjustable throttling was baked into the platform and not require me to write logic to handle it, that would be sweet too.

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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by inlined on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:16PM (#11725509)
Is there anything you'd like to use the IP address for beyond throttling?
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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by velohx on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @06:01PM (#11726345)
Not in my use cases.
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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by mayop100 on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @02:57PM (#11724731)
This isn't something we support out of the box yet, but I'll definitely discuss this with the team. Thanks for the feedback!
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