Re: true ip tracking

its a bit tedious to make anonymous visotors register on the site to vote a poll , so there is no other workaround then ? "Jason Wong" <php-general@gremlins.biz> wrote in message news:200301041255.04680.php-general@gremlins.biz... > On Saturday 04 January 2003 12:38, electroteque wrote: > > hi i was wondering if there was a way to get the clients ip's behind > > proxies that hide the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header ? > > No. > > > this is most important > > for checking ips for polls except some proxies dont send this important > > header ?? > > It's not that important. In many cases it could very well be a private IP > address and hence of dubious value. > > If the accuracy of the poll is important then only let registered and logged > in users take part in the poll. Even then, depending on your registration > procedures, you may have people registering multiple times to cast multiple > votes. > > In short there is no surefire way of preventing people from voting more than > once. > > -- > Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz > Open Source Software Systems Integrators > * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * > > /* > "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." > -- Dr. Seuss > */ >