Re: MAC address user recognition?

At 05:13 21.02.2003, Jason Sheets said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >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. -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/