RE: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Showalter
Ron Goral wrote: > ... > I can figure a way to react to a changed IP, but my curiosity runs > more toward why this AOL browser is switching IPs during a session. > I could understand if the user were to disconnect then reconnect his > internet, but this is just a change of web pages basically. Pe

RE: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Goral
Original - 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 h

Re: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Motherofperls
In a message dated 8/13/03 9:46:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see, you have no control of over the redirect. Use the IP address first and if it returns no match check for cookies. If the cookie returns nothing then create an popup input box with javascript. Yes an

RE: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Showalter
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 javascript

RE: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Showalter
David Wall wrote: > --On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:07 PM -0400 Bob Showalter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > Huh? I've used cookies without java

Re: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Motherofperls
Is this for tracking user id from page to page,  If so I have some javascript that automatically add the tracking number to all forms and links.

RE: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Goral
Subject: RE: AOL and IP Address Changes Ron Goral wrote: > ... > I can figure a way to react to a changed IP, but my curiosity runs > more toward why this AOL browser is switching IPs during a session. > I could understand if the user were to disconnect then reconnect his > interne

RE: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Showalter
Bob Showalter wrote: > ... AOL > may be using a pool of proxies and handing his requests off to > different proxies in a load-balancing scheme. This in fact seems to be the case. cf: http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html Which contains this statement: "...When a member requests multi

RE: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread David Wall
--On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:07 PM -0400 Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 java

Re: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In a message dated 8/13/03 9:46:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I see, you have no control of over the redirect. Use the IP address > first and if it returns no match check for cookies. If the cookie > returns nothing then create an popup

RE: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Goral
t;mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AOL and IP Address Changes From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In a message dated 8/13/03 9:46:29 AM Pacific Daylight

RE: AOL and IP Address Changes

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Goral
003 11:11 AM To: 'Ron Goral'; Perl Beginners Subject: RE: AOL and IP Address Changes Bob Showalter wrote: > ... AOL > may be using a pool of proxies and handing his requests off to > different proxies in a load-balancing scheme. This in fact seems to be the case. cf: http