in reply to [OT] Who is requesting the page?

Why are you trying to do this exactly? It sounds inherently dangerous, since IP addresses can be spoofed. I hope you have some sort of secondary security system in place, since IP spoofing is the first thing I'd try if I were going to mess with a site.

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Re^2: [OT] Who is requesting the page?
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jul 18, 2005 at 19:02 UTC
    The thing is, the HTML he is producing executes /usr/bin/ (i assume on his platform it opens a file explorer) from the local machine (ie the machine that is running the browser). There is no security risk.


    -Waswas