nicora — Wed, 15 May 2002 19:25:44 +0000

I would have to agree, server side scripting would be the best solution... whatever langauge is available

CF = #CGI.remote_host#
In fact I think that REMOTE_HOST would work for almost any langauge, I know it does in asp. I have been wrong before tho

Suzanne — Wed, 15 May 2002 05:45:53 +0000

darn details! thanks for clarifying!

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 15 May 2002 04:52:03 +0000

Quote:
Isn't that the exact same code as above and in the Java link?

Yes, it looks like it, except for capitalisation of a few characters, and that the first snippet didn't work but the one in the link did.

I agree that server side is the way to go for this.

dk01 — Tue, 14 May 2002 11:35:47 +0000

Yes Perl, Php, or ssi. However you like it and whatever capabilities your server has.
-dk

Suzanne — Tue, 14 May 2002 06:57:59 +0000

Isn't that the exact same code as above and in the Java link?

I think it's better to do it server-side -- more reliable and no client side errors to screw you up.

Abhishek Reddy — Tue, 14 May 2002 06:54:46 +0000

Hmm... just checked again on Google. Look what I found at http://javascript.internet.com/user-details/hostname.html

Quote:
(works only for Netscape Browsers with Java enabled) If you would like to get your visitors IP Addresses, use this script. Very cool.

I tested the following code in Netscape 4.7 and it worked just fine.

Code from http://www.irt.org/discus/messages/25/236.html

&lt;script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"&gt; 
myAddress=java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(); 
myAddress2=java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(); 
host=myAddress.getHostName(); 
ip=myAddress2.getHostAddress(); 
document.write("Your host name is "+host); 
document.write("<BR>Your IP address is "+ip); 
&lt;/script&gt; 

Abhishek Reddy — Tue, 14 May 2002 06:24:06 +0000

You must declare using var before the variable names.

e.g.

var myaddress ...

Suzanne — Tue, 14 May 2002 01:01:23 +0000

I would personally use either SSI or Php.

For SSI:

http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/SSI/Intro/cgi.html

brady.k — Tue, 14 May 2002 00:53:47 +0000

then how would i do it in PERL

dk01 — Sun, 12 May 2002 06:35:57 +0000

That looks like it should work but it doesn't for me. I think a perl script would be the only way to get a result almost every time. Using java seems to be very inconsistant.
-dk