30 Nov
2002
30 Nov
'02
5:24 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:21:23AM +0530, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
AFA proxies are concerned, the REMOTE_HOST variable contains the IP address of the proxy, but there's another variable that contains the IP address of the client behind the proxy.
Even if one can locate this IP address, and one also combines the time of the transaction, it can still fail in a rare case, when two users on the same machine cast a vote simultaneously! :-(
I think the only absolutely reliable way to handle this is to have user accounts for the poll.
Sameer.
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