Re: $REMOTE_ADDR error

thanks man... HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR worked... it had two IPs... I guess is "userIP, proxyIP"... but I worked it out with strtok... thanks a lot! :) At 12:13 27/6/2001 +0200, Brave Cobra wrote:

Have a look in phpinfo. You'll find the desired value there. The reason is indeed proxying. or try something like this : if ($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] != "")

    $ip = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];
    $proxy = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REMOTE_ADDR"];
    $host = @gethostbyaddr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]);

} else $ip = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REMOTE_ADDR"]; $host = @gethostbyaddr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REMOTE_ADDR"]); } Brave Cobra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin May" <rael@wibble.org.uk> To: "Christian Dechery" <lemming@vento.com.br> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] $REMOTE_ADDR error Almost as if the request was proxied or redirected from the local machine (127.0.0.1 is the local loop back ip) Quoting Christian Dechery (Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:31:54PM -0300)

why do $REMOTE_ADDR always returns 127.0.0.1 no matter the user's IP who

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