Re: Sessions and IP Addresses

2008-09-06 Thread Tim Chase
>>> NAT (I believe AOL did/does something like this) so requests from >>> the same user behind the NAT can appear to be coming from >>> different public IP addresses. >> >> AOL certainly does this. Either that or my own little web site has an >> astonishingly high number of different AOL users hi

Re: Sessions and IP Addresses

2008-09-06 Thread Karl Ward
On Sep 6, 1:32 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Or one might be behind a load-balancing > > NAT (I believe AOL did/does something like this) so requests from > > the same user behind the NAT can appear to be

Re: Sessions and IP Addresses

2008-09-06 Thread Karen Tracey
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Or one might be behind a load-balancing > NAT (I believe AOL did/does something like this) so requests from > the same user behind the NAT can appear to be coming from > different public IP addresses. > > AOL certainly does this

Re: Sessions and IP Addresses

2008-09-06 Thread Tim Chase
> The question is this: what does Django do when multiple > requests come in from different IP addresses that are > reporting the same session id? Does Django dump the session > data and create new session ids for the offending clients? I believe the answer is "Django does the right thing", i.e.

Sessions and IP Addresses

2008-09-06 Thread Karl Ward
Hi, I have a question about Django's built-in session support. I've looked around in the documentation (and the free Django on-line book) but couldn't find an answer. Its the sort of question that could be answered by a look through the code, but I'm new to Python and at the moment just trying to