Re: Re: cookies and sessions security
| From: | Tim Zickus | Date: | Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:54:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: cookies and sessions security | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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> Wow, I never thought of using the remote IP! Thanks for the tip. I
> am going to use it today for an authentication system I'm building.
Please note that remote IP is NOT reliable. For clients behind the proxies
& gateways of large ISP's (AOL is the prime example) you can see the remote
address bounce around from number to number, even within the same session,
depending on which path the data takes.
For more information, see http://webmaster.info.aol.com/
- Tim