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RE: [PHP3] $REMOTE_ADDR ?? From: Richard Lynch (lynch <email protected>)
Date: 01/22/99

At 4:57 PM 1/22/99, Samuel Liddicott wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeremiah Davis [mailto:jdavis <email protected>]
>> Sent: 13 January 1999 18:34
>> To: php
>> Subject: [PHP3] $REMOTE_ADDR ??
>>
>> What I was wondering is, are there
>> any browsers that will not transmit the $REMOTE_ADDR ??
>
>I don't think many do, I think remote_addr is deduced from the server by the
>souce address of the http connection.

Firewalls, proxies, and mass-market ISP's make remote_addr pretty much useless.

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