Re: Access CLIENTNAME

Scot L. Harris wrote:

I'm running a PHP system that relies on knowing the location of the terminal to handle a lot of '911' (999) type things. I know that REMOTE_ADDR can not be relied on, but with fixed IP addresses on a local network it works fine. However I now have a customer who has a Terminal Server thin client network, and REMOTE_ADDR only reports the server address. In order to restore the facilities I need to gain access to the CLIENTNAME environmental variable from the browser and return it to PHP.

This won't work? function get_ip() { if (isSet($_SERVER)) {

       if (isSet($_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"])) {
           $realip = $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];
       } elseif (isSet($_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"])) {
               $realip = $_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"];
           } else {
               $realip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
           }
       } else {
           if ( getenv( 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR' ) ) {
               $realip = getenv( 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR' );
           } elseif ( getenv( 'HTTP_CLIENT_IP' ) ) {
               $realip = getenv( 'HTTP_CLIENT_IP' );
           } else {
               $realip = getenv( 'REMOTE_ADDR' );
       }

} return $realip; }

No - neither HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR or HTTP_CLIENT_IP are returned for any browser running on Terminal Server. Just REMOTE_ADDR which is the address of the server not the client. Would be nice if HTTP_CLIENT_IP COULD be returned, and it would make sense. -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services