Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:11:50 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de> To: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> Cc: "Paul M . Lambert" <plambert@plambert.net>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Limiting number of downloads per user in Apache?? Message-ID: <3A5E4BC6.3ED24DA8@i-clue.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101111855370.51405-100000@www.bellnetworks.net>
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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
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