Forum Moderators: phranque
A. No. Because AOL uses proxy servers to service the requests made by members, webmasters see the IP address of the gr server, not the DAHA of the member in their web site log files. The problem with trying to use the IP address to track access is that there may easily be multiple members assigned to a proxy server. All of the member requests would appear to be coming from one member if you assumed a relationship between member and IP address. In addition, members may be reassigned to a different proxy server during a session. See also Network Info.
reference: [webmaster.info.aol.com...]
NOW HERE'S MY QUESTION:
I have a website with 10,000 users and am using
$my_variable = $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR};
to differentiate between users at login time, as well as to report (who's) online at a given time....
Unfortunately, AOL, COMPUSERV AND WEBTV don't seem to provide a true IP address unique to each user... The result is that AOL users are not able to LOGIN to my site.....
SO do you know of another PERL language CGI command, or variable that I can reference that is common and always available from Netscape, IE, AOL, COMPUSERV etc.? - other than cookies .........
bdp / exclick /
Regards,
Brent
I have not done so myself, but maybe it'll be useful.
Jim
.... however, now I have another question... This cookie file works fine with Mozilla and Netscape, however, with IE, I have not been able to get it to work...
In NETSCAPE, I type in a name... say, BOB...
when I run the (get cookie) it returns:
Hello BOB! See, I remembered your name!
When I run the same code on IE, it returns,
The cookie must have expired...
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HERE'S MY QUESTION: code works fine in Netscape and Mozilla.
Why doesn't the code work in IE - which is configured to accept cookies...
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Here is a copy of the code for anyone who has solutions ...
THE GET COOKIE FILE:
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# cookie-get.cgi - fetch the value of a cookie
use CGI qw(:standard);
$name = cookie("username");
my $ipaddy = $name;
print "<p><b>The ipaddy swiped from comments of the cookie.html file...:</b> $ipaddy\n";
print
header(),
start_html("Hello $name"),
h1("Hello " . $name ¦¦ "Stranger");
if ($name) {
print p("See, I remembered your name!");
} else {
print p("The cookie must have expired.");
}
print end_html();
### END ###
SET COOKIE FILE
###############
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# cookie-set.cgi - set a cookie
use CGI qw(:standard);
unless (param()) {
# display form
print
header(),
start_html("Cookie Baker"),
h1("Cookie Baker"),
start_form(),
p("What's your name?", textfield("NAME")),
submit(),
end_form(),
end_html();
# cookie-set.cgi will be continued ...
#Setting a cookie is a two-part process: first, create it with the cookie() function, then pass it to the browser when you send the HTTP header. In the remaining code, $to_set holds the cookie we create, and the -cookie argument to the header() function passes it to the browser.
# cookie-set.cgi continues ...
} else {
# process form and set cookie
$name = param("NAME");
$to_set = cookie(-name => "username",
-value => $name,
-expires => "+59s",
# -path => "/survey/surveybin",
-path => "/",
);
print
header(-cookie => $to_set),
start_html("Thanks!"),
h1("Thanks for using the Cookie Baker"),
p("I set your name to ", b($name),
" and I will remember this if you visit ",
a({-href => "cookie-get.cgi"}, "here"),
" within the next 59 seconds."),
end_html();
}
>moving this thread to FOO
This is the Overture Pay Per Click fora!
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And so what does this mean?
This is where I located the original code:
[webbuilder.netscape.com...]
Although it works on Netscape, I don't know why it won't set a cookie on IE.
:)
You posted in the Overture forum and I moved it to Foo. After some discussion between the Moderatores it was moved to Website Technology Issues.
