Getting the Client IP address on a J2EE server

The HTTPRequest object has 2 methods 'getRemoteAddr()' and 'getRemoteHost()'. These methods would return us the IPAddress/HostName of the last proxy or the client. So if the client is behind a proxy, then we would get the IPAddress of the proxy.
Some proxies (known as transparent proxies) pass the actual IP address of the client in the header HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR.
So on the server side we can code something like this:

if (request.getHeader("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR") == null) {
String ipaddress = request.getRemoteAddr();
} else {
String ipaddress = request.getHeader("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR");
}

But if the proxy is an anonymous proxy, then even this won't work. So the only way to get the Client Address correctly is using an Applet to capture the IP address of the client. For this, the client should be trusted and signed.
Another option that I came across in a forum is to create a Socket connection back to the web server from which you came and asking the Socket for the local address:

URL url = getDocumentBase();
String host = url.getHost();
Socket socket = new Socket(host, 80);
InetAddress addr = socket.getLocalAddress();
String hostAddr = addr.getHostAddress();
System.out.println("Addr: " + hostAddr);