Merge pull request #5602 from Ullmie02/IP-string-IP

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/HttpContextExtensions.cs b/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/HttpContextExtensions.cs
index 19fa95480..e51ad42d1 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/HttpContextExtensions.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/HttpContextExtensions.cs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Extensions
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="context">The HTTP context.</param>
         /// <returns>The remote caller IP address.</returns>
-        public static string GetNormalizedRemoteIp(this HttpContext context)
+        public static IPAddress GetNormalizedRemoteIp(this HttpContext context)
         {
             // Default to the loopback address if no RemoteIpAddress is specified (i.e. during integration tests)
             var ip = context.Connection.RemoteIpAddress ?? IPAddress.Loopback;
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Extensions
                 ip = ip.MapToIPv4();
             }
 
-            return ip.ToString();
+            return ip;
         }
     }
 }