> Ach, oy vey! Then, having looked at AOL's info, it seems to me that
> perhaps one could build a function or class that could evaluate
> against a known list of alternate proxies. So, if the request came
> from 152.163.197, it would recognize that as an AOL proxy and just
> code the current p
At 14.54 -0500 01-01-15, Tim Zickus poked the keyboard as follows:
> > Wow, I never thought of using the remote IP! Thanks for the tip. I
>> am going to use it today for an authentication system I'm building.
>
>Please note that remote IP is NOT reliable. For clients behind the proxies
>& gate
> >Very good: keep the thing on a secure connection all the time, set a
> >session id cookie and keep all user info (possibly including
> >remote ip) in the server's session db... (vulnerable to nothing I can
> think of at the moment...)
>
> Wow, I never thought of using the remote IP! Thanks
> Wow, I never thought of using the remote IP! Thanks for the tip. I
> am going to use it today for an authentication system I'm building.
Please note that remote IP is NOT reliable. For clients behind the proxies
& gateways of large ISP's (AOL is the prime example) you can see the remote
addre
>Poor security: log in with a form or basic authentication; set cookie on
>client with username/password combo (vulnerable to network sniffers,
>anybody with access to browser's cookie file)
>Decent security: log in with form or basic authentication; set cookie with
>session id number and store us
> Very good: keep the thing on a secure connection all the time, set a
> session id cookie and keep all user info (possibly including remote ip)
> in the server's session db... (vulnerable to nothing I can think
> of at the moment...)
>
> There are probably more things you could do I haven't th
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