Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:57:11 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> To: "Paul M . Lambert" <plambert@plambert.net> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Limiting number of downloads per user in Apache?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101111855370.51405-100000@www.bellnetworks.net> In-Reply-To: <20010111155028.B316@pinky.plambert.net>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Paul M . Lambert wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jim Freeze wrote: > > > With php you can track a visitors ip with $REMOTE_ADDR. > > This should identify the user, even with multiple windows open. > > > > Jim > > It would seem so (and one doesn't need PHP to have access to the remote > address, by the way). Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of people > are behind internet proxies; AOL, for example, has many millions of > members, but only a few hundred thousand ip addresses. It's entirely > possible that hundreds of different people using browsers on their > own personal computers could have requests sent from the same IP > address. It's more than possible, but in fact quite common. > > There is _no_ way to track users in a foolproof manner. Sorry. > Yes, I forgot about that. But, I never like to say never...never. :) Visitors can always be tracked with an id and password if bandwidth is that important. ==================================================== Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------- ** http://www.freeze.org ** ==================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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