Ron Goral wrote:
> I am writing a script that relies on retrieving the $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}
> from the user's browser. I'm depending on this for database
> information retrieval rather than cookies or some type of
> javascripting since one cannot depend on a user having either cookies
> or javascripting enabled in his browser. I've run across an issue
> with an AOL user and am curious if this is a universal problem with
> the AOL browser or just this person's particular browser
> configurations. My script is handing the user off to a VeriSign
> secure server. Sometime between when the user is handed off to the
> VeriSign server and he is returned to my unsecured server, his IP
> address changes. Has anyone encountered this? If so, what solution
> can you suggest.
You can't use REMOTE_ADDR for this purpose. His IP is being dynamically
assigned from a pool that any number of users will share over time. If you
don't want to use cookies (easiest approach, IMO), you can use a session ID
in your URL's. Javascript is necessary in either case.
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