For those of you wanting to log the ip-address (and maybe display it), this might be worth looking at (I grabbed the URL from our archives of the mailinglist):
http://opensrs.iwpp.com/. Thanks to Joe Malinowski for providing this. /Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Michlick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dev-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 3:54 PM Subject: RE: fraud headsup > Mike, > > If you're using Apache, the requesting IP-address is contained in the > environment variable REMOTE_ADDR. > > HTH, > /Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dev-List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 11:01 > To: Frank Michlick; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fraud headsup > > > Hi Guys... I like the IP thing and have been planning on adding that to our > scripts, but as I haven't done it before, can anyone point me to sample > codes for this?? > > Thanks, > > Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.4CheapDomains.Net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Michlick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 9:21 AM > Subject: Re: fraud headsup > > > > Hi, > > > > Some of our resellers pend certain orders on a per order basis for > > 'manual' investigation and also block orders from certain areas. > > > > So you basically take the order as normal, but before actually > > submitting the order to OpenSRS you check it for certain fraud > > patterns. If it matches any of these - you put it into pending instead > > of processing it. > > > > Also it might be worth mentioning that to some extend it apparently > > helps to show the user's IP address during the order process. > > > > Hope this helps, > > /Frank > > > > > >