Posted by noidtluom on 07/16/07 13:19

On Jul 15, 11:35 pm, Michael Fesser <neti...@gmx.de> wrote:
> .oO(noidtluom)
>
> >Sorry if I have not read the whole topic and this hasn't been answered
> >before, but here is my technique. It's rather a simple hack.
> >On a page, I would simply register the IP address and the current time
> >that the page was pinged in a mysql database.
>
> Hrrmpf ... whenever you think it can't get worse, somebody comes along
> and proves that you're wrong ... :(
>
> Using the IP to "identify" a user is even more unreliable than anything
> else (even session counting would get you closer to the reality). There
> could be a hundred visitors on your site using the same IP (proxies) or
> a single visitor using multiple different IPs (dialup, load balancers).
> Back to rand() again.
>
> OK, next try. Who wants? SCNR
>
> >As for the HTTP stuff, I seriously don't think it is very related,
> >this is a practical question, not theory.
>
> Correct. And in practice it simply can't work.
>
> Micha

Hello,

Well, I was simply trying to give a practical solution that can be
used. I myself have never done this sort of thing, but off the top of
my head that is what I'll do. Anyway, I'm certain people have made
script about this sort of thing. Just google one up and see how they
did it. Or you can look into scripts such as PHPBB or IPB.

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