On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Bob Showalter wrote: > 1. The client IP address, which you can get by calling getpeername() > on STDIN (or from REMOTE_ADDR environment variable). If the client is > behind a proxy, you'd need to depend on the proxy adding something to > the request headers.
Moreover, nearly all corporate web users as well as most academic users and a whole lot of home ones are using NAT gateways, so if your site is popular with, say, staffers at CNN, you'll get a whole bunch of hits from one IP at gateway.cnn.com (or something similar), but it may really be several hundred people behind that address. Cookies can help get a better sense of individuals rather than just subnets, but the numbers are never as accurate as you'll want them to be. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
