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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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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.

Is there anything you'd like to use the IP address for beyond throttling?

Not in my use cases.

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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