Re: Obtaining IP address of client using CGIDEV2

Thanks Mel and Nathan.....I guess I missed it when I went through the
documentation.  Mel;  Very true, in my case I need it for internal clients
which have 'hardcoded' IP addresses.

Thanks again!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mel Rothman" <mel@rothmanweb.com>
To: <web400@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Obtaining IP address of client using CGIDEV2


> Use the getenv subprocedure to retrieve the REMOTE_ADDR environment
variable.
>
> Note that many users access the web through proxy servers, socks servers,
or
> firewall hardware or software that does network address translation, so
you
> often won't be getting the user's real i.p. address.
>
>
> Mel Rothman, CGIDEV2 Author
> IBM eServer Custom Technology Center (CTC), Rochester, Minnesota
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/ctc/
> http://www.easy400.ibm.it/en
>
>
>
> Michael Skvarenina wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to obtain the client's IP address using CGIDEV2?
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