Re: Questions about $_SERVER

On 29 August 2010 18:04, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: > Jason Pruim wrote: > >> My understanding of how shared hosting works would make this near >> impossible... Basically Apache grabs a header that is sent at the >> initial connection which includes the destination hostname and from >> there it translates it to the proper directory on the shared host. >> >> All the IP's though are based off of the parent site's server... >> >> Now with dedicated hosting where you have the entire machine you can >> do what you are looking at because the IP address will always >> translate back to your website. > The HTTP protocol does not provide a domain among the request header fields - you need to implement idenfication/authentication in a different manner (preferably in a way that does not rely upon IP addresses, seeing as that doesn't provide any reliable sort of identification). Regards Peter -- <hype> WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51 Twitter: http://twitter.com/kafe15 </hype>