"hn" <hn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi John,
I remember I read somewhere that Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR")
would give you the real address, but I'm not so sure. Anyway,
Request.UserHostAddress is good enough for me. Thanks for the quick reply,
Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR") can't give you any "real address",
since no "real address" is ever sent.
An IP address is something used at the network layer, and shouldn't really
be used by your application. If your application needs to know the identity
of the sending machine, then it should use something like X.509
certificates, which are meant to represent identity (an IP address is not).
John Saunders