> >>>>> "David" == David Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> How do I get the IP address from a POST form.
> >>
> >> Let me make myself more clear: I have a form that uses POST,
> >> and I would like to get users' IP address for avoiding the
> >> same user to fake my pool's result.
>
> David> You can check $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}, which will contain
> the remote IP
> David> of the user hitting your page.
>
> And that's still insufficient and incorrect.
>
> Repeat after me:
>
> A user is not an IP address
> A user is not an IP address
> A user is not an IP address
>
> Specifically, the largest userbase on the planet, AOL, comes
> into the Internet proper via Web Proxies. On every hit, a
> different proxy is used, so these hits show up as coming from
> completely different addresses. Even the main page and the
> image fetches for that page will all show up as different
> addresses. And then of course, those same
> small-number-of-proxies are used for millions of users.
>
> So again, I repeat:
>
> A user is not an IP address
>
> Get it through your head that using IP address for vote
> blockout is just ... WRONG.
Message received, ZERO distortion. Are you saying, then, that it's
impossible to build an accessible cgi-based voting system (which allows
more than one user to access the system from within a large network)
without using cookies or forcing each user to log in?
AOL RuLeZ,
-dave
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