On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Kevin Stone wrote: > Chris I appreciate your response but please read my post again. I did not > suggest using the IP for user identification. I suggested using it as a > temporary id. I went on further to suggest to use sessions to identify > individual users behind a proxy server.
But he also mentioned a round-robin proxy messing things up. I've had personal experience with IP addresses from AOL clients changing with each new connection. If your AOL users click through your site a few times, it's possible that their IP address will change between those clicks, thus making even a temporary id based on the IP address unreliable, and perhaps frustrating if your site keeps 'forgetting' things about the user. Joel -- [ joel boonstra | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
