Re: php behind firewall

On Fri, August 4, 2006 10:25 am, Andrew Senyshyn wrote: > I need to get local user IP, but server with apache and php is in > another subnetwork. > So from server environment I can get only router's IP. > The only solution that I see - is getting with some magic algorithm > local IP from brouser and sending it to server. > My application is for intranet, so I don't see any reason to make > users > authorization. > Any ideas for this? Don't. If it's a transparent proxy, you can get their IP. If it's NOT a transparent proxy, you can't get their IP, by design, and nothing you can do will change that, at least in PHP. That's the whole point of a transparent proxy. Suppose you wrote some JS to send you the 'local' IP -- Even if that works, which I suspect not, it would be pointless, since you'd end up with a few hundred people with IP addresses such as 192.168.1.100, which is a meaningful IP address only in their subnet, not in the larger network in general. Now, to your specific case: If you can get the browser to send you the IP, then a Bad Guy can write their browser to send you whatever IP they want, thus defeating your so-called authentication. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm