At 05:13 21.02.2003, Jason Sheets said:
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>MAC addresses are used for on a LAN and not the Internet.  Using a MAC
>address might work for identification on a LAN BUT in most operating
>systems you can easily change the effective MAC address on the card.

Most dialup users will most probably have the same Mac address since DUN
creates a fake MAC.

>If you were concerned about the overhead of SSL you could make only your
>login page go over SSL and the rest of your site go over normal HTTP.

You can do this, but you cannot to pass the session token via cookie, since
    https://yourdomain.com
and
    http://yourdomain.com
are seen as different hosts, thus a cookie (default setting) will not be
shared among these.


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