RE: [PHP] Getting IP address
| From: | Jon Haworth | Date: | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:13:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Getting IP address | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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A better version would be:
if (getenv(HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR)) {
$ip=getenv(HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR);
} else {
$ip=getenv(REMOTE_ADDR);
}
This checks for proxy forwarding as well, if you just use REMOTE_ADDR you
might end up with a proxy, not the real IP.
Cheers
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Gietl [mailto:a.gietl@e-admin.de]
Sent: 19 September 2001 11:15
To: Andrew Semark; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Getting IP address
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 11:37, Andrew Semark wrote:
$addr = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');
> Can anybody tell me how to get the IP address of the remote machine
looking
> at the web page. I have two versions of PHP 4 On the box with version
> 4.0.1 I can use $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REMOTE_ADDR"], but on the other server
> running 4.0.0 this don't work. Is there another way of doing this as it's
> not possible to upgrade this server.
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