From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 15:57:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.bellnetworks.net [208.177.187.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D0037B69D for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:57:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA51632; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:57:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:57:11 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jim@www.bellnetworks.net To: "Paul M . Lambert" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Limiting number of downloads per user in Apache?? In-Reply-To: <20010111155028.B316@pinky.plambert.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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