Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/24/07 01:11

Gordon Burditt wrote:
>> | WHAT HAPPENS IF THIS DOES NOT REQUIRE A LOGIN????? NOTHING WAS EVER SAID
>> | ABOUT THE USER LOGGING IN!
>>
>> imagine if you will/can, that the form carries a tag perhaps identifying
>> say, an ip address - i know it's a stretch for you. that would certainly be
>> ONE way to marry an instance of data with a browser. input is stored in a db
>> with each post/get. when that ip (in this instance) and its data was
>> analized, we could then still tell where the user left off - or what the
>> next step would be.
>
> Imagine that you subscribe to AOL, where consecutive web hits from
> your browser appear to come from different IP addresses. Imagine
> that you subscribe to a dialup ISP, where getting back the same IP
> address after the modem disconnects can take days of tries. Imagine
> that you sometimes access the Internet from different places, like
> home, work, and your cell phone, all of which have different IP
> addresses.
>

Gordon,

Forget it. He doesn't want to understand how things really work. He's
got this idea on how the internet works "According to Steve". Never
mind it's so far from real life it isn't even funny.

He'll argue with you that his way is right until the end of the universe
- and NEVER even come close to agreeing that someone else may have a
valid point.


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