Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/16/07 13:38

noidtluom wrote:
> 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.
>

Yep, but just because people who don't know any better create scripts
doesn't mean they provide meaningful results.

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