Yep ... that's what I've discoverd: http://www.webdav.org/specs/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt
from section 3.5 ... I was assuming there was some way to parse and decrypt the mac address from: "The following is an example of the string representation of a UUID: f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6" the 00a0c91e6bf6 being the mac address of the computer. K -----Original Message----- From: Garrett Goebel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:07 PM To: 'Ged Haywood'; kfr Cc: mod_perl Mailing List Subject: RE: collecting unique client (computer) specific info? [OT] [x-adr][x-bayes] Ged Haywood wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, kfr wrote: > > > the hardware address is really what I'm after. > > What hardware? He's looking for a MAC address, cpu id, etc. something to fix the identity of the remote host. Nobody's up and told him that it just isn't possible. Which from the mod_perl books and documentation I've read... appears to be the case. -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
