showing visitors IP ??
Hi,
I have a shopping cart on my site & 99% of sales are going to be COD. So i want to be able to show my visitors IP address & give a "don't be naughty" type warning to help reduce the number of times that i will get messed around.
What is the best way to show a visitors IP ??
Thanks
Tony
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japhy posted this at 20:57 — 27th March 2001.
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Since the pages are being displayed dynamically, you can try the REMOTE_ADDR environment variable. Note, though, that this value is not traceable to a specific location in the world, and proxies can make this value meaningless.
In Perl, it's $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}. The SSI to echo it is .
hotcut posted this at 19:50 — 10th April 2001.
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Joined: Sep 2000
In ASP its
Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR")
But nomatter what, I think it would be the best if you used a cookie to store the information in! That way you will make sure that its the same computer that you are talking to! With the IP you can't be 100% sure!
I think that
response.cookies("cookiename") = "1"
and
request.cookies("cookiename")
should do the job for you.
Hope´it helps.
~Casper
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