Re: REMOTE_ADDR question

From: Jonathan Larmour <JLarmour@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 20:36:56 +0000

At 09:54 28/01/97 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have written a small bash script, that uses the
>variable REMOTE_ADDR. It returns the correct IP address of the
>user, but only if he do not go through a proxy server.
>
>Is there a way to get the real REMOTE_ADDR instead again?

Not reliably - it can be faked. See the discussion with the subject
"Passthrough TCP/IP address" which is asking about how to do basically the
same thing.

Jonathan L.

Origin UK,323 Cambridge Science Park,Cambridge,England. Tel: +44(1223)423355
------[ Do not think that every sad-eyed woman has loved and lost... ]------
April 12th! Ra!Ra!----[ she may have got him. -Anon ]-----April 12th! Ra!Ra!
Help fight spam! http://www.vix.com/spam These opinions are all my own fault
Received on Tue Jan 28 1997 - 12:57:36 MST

This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Tue Dec 09 2003 - 16:34:12 MST