From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 16:11:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B2637B6A1 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:10:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id CAA31149; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 02:17:38 +0100 Message-ID: <3A5E4BC6.3ED24DA8@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:11:50 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Freeze Cc: "Paul M . Lambert" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Limiting number of downloads per user in Apache?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Freeze schrieb: > > 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. And it's easy to get just another five-minute-password, if you're really tempted to do so. Just my EUR .02 -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message