how do I get a website visitor's host address

keiusui has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: how do I get a website visitor's host address by McDarren (Abbot) on Jan 31, 2006 at 06:05 UTC
perldoc gethostbyaddr	[reply]
Re^2: how do I get a website visitor's host address by jbrugger (Parson) on Jan 31, 2006 at 06:08 UTC
ah, ok it can be (and probably is a Perl question :) You might look here: CGI Environment Variables as well. "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise." - Larry Wall.	[reply]
Re: how do I get a website visitor's host address by idle (Friar) on Jan 31, 2006 at 06:06 UTC
`$ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'}`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: how do I get a website visitor's host address by l.frankline (Hermit) on Jan 31, 2006 at 06:12 UTC
Hi, `$ENV{HTTP_HOST} = whatismyipaddress.com` `$ENV{PATH_INFO} = staticpages/index.php` cheers Don't put off till tomorrow, what you can do today.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: how do I get a website visitor's host address by strat (Canon) on Jan 31, 2006 at 09:34 UTC
But don't put too much trust into this ip or hostname, because often it's a proxy's hostname or ip-address and not the enduser's one Best regards, perl -e "s>>F>e=>y)\martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"	[reply]
Re: how do I get a website visitor's host address by jbrugger (Parson) on Jan 31, 2006 at 06:04 UTC
this isn't Perl related, is it? But anyway, try digging into the host name lookup :) `dig xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx` [download] and there are more possible ways. "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise." - Larry Wall.	[reply] [d/l]