note 35056 added to function.gethostbyaddr

From: Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 06:49:03 +0000
Subject: note 35056 added to function.gethostbyaddr
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Some users (a minority) will present IP addresses to the browser which cause problems with gethostbyaddr. I had a complaint from a user today about this. This gives an error "Warning: Address is not in a.b.c.d form" and if you try to send any headers after this error has been generated, then, naturally, the results are unpleasant on the user's screen. The simplest way I found to get round this problem which affects less than 1% of users is to put a "@" in front of gethostbyaddr and not lose any more sleep over it :-) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gethostbyaddr.php Edit Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+35056 Delete Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+35056&report=yes Reject Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+35056&report=yes

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