# Request.remote\_ip returns kok + ip

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/request-remote-ip-returns-kok-ip/147572>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 3, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/request-remote-ip-returns-kok-ip/147572 "2008-09-03T08:20:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/request-remote-ip-returns-kok-ip/147572/1 "2008-09-03T08:20:42Z")

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What is this? When I use request.remote\_ip in my rails app and print it  
to a web page it says “kok” and then the ip. What is that word there  
for?

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**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 8:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/request-remote-ip-returns-kok-ip/147572/2 "2008-09-03T08:33:03Z")

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Pål Bergström wrote:

> What is this? When I use request.remote\_ip in my rails app and print it  
> to a web page it says “kok” and then the ip. What is that word there  
> for?

🙂 🙂 Ha ha

Never mind. Was a test word I had put in the layout file. What a mystery  
🙂