Not long ago, John Buwa proclaimed... > I havea question on outbound ips. I am writing a program that a user can > enter an address and a spider will go and retrieve only the information that > was request and then display the results to the enquiring user. My question > is though, i have grabed the users ip address as the initiator of the > request and i would like to use that ip address (The users) to send the http > request instead of my systems addres. How would i changed outgoing requests > to reflect the invoking users ip and not my systems ip?
Being as how the IP address is part of the TCP/IP protocols and not HTTP, I can't see how Apache (or mod_perl) can do anything about that. You can't spoof IPs at the application layer if you're doing network transactions. -=Fozz -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doran L. Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Chief Super Hero - Iodynamics LLC < http://www.iodynamics.com/ > - Linux solutions and dynamic websites "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave." -- 'Pepsi Comes Alive' as originally translated into Chinese
