Re: Envairoment variables

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Ivan Rodriguez wrote: > Hi > > I am looking for the code that generates the value of REMOTE_ADDR so that > I want to make a code that gives the MAC address of the visitor and I am > looking into http://lxr.php.net but I don´t found nothing, if > some can > help me ... :-) Just to clearify where REMOTE_ADDR is ocmming from: REMOTE_ADDR is part of the CGI-Spec and is provided by the Webserver which handles the connection to the client. something like: cfd = accept(fd, &(sockaddr), sockaddrlen); cgi_var("REMOTE_ADDR", inet_ntoa(sockaddr.in...)); But as it has been said by georg: there is no way to get MAC address of the client, if the client isn't in the same physical network (where you could to a ARP request) > Iván Rodriguez Espada Jan -- http://jan.kneschke.de - localizer, modlogan, pxtools, lighttpd mailto:jan@kneschke.de - Jan Kneschke