Re: php behind firewall

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Jochem Maas wrote:
Andrew Senyshyn wrote:
Hi all,

I need to get local user IP, but server with apache and php is in
another subnetwork.
So from server environment I can get only router's IP.
The only solution that I see - is getting with some magic algorithm
local IP from brouser and sending it to server.
My application is for intranet, so I don't see any reason to make users
authorization.
Any ideas for this?

you can't always get the real users IP because of proxies, anonimizers, firewalls/gateways
[on the user end] (and don't bother using an IP as an absolute indicator when validating a

Wait, are you telling me that I can't auth my customers based on IP
alone?  Great, now how do I let them view their sensitive data?  ;)

session - you can use it as one of a number of metrics - for instance AOL users have their
IP addresses changed roughly every 300 milliseconds).


Gawd, AOL causes us so many headaches with that crap.

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