[FX.php List] [OFF] Getting visitor's IP

[Bob Patin]

Kevin,

Thanks, that's the command Jonathan Schwartz sent me; I don't need to  
list them both in my code then, do I, since I'm using OS X Server?

Can't I just use the one that works and forget about REMOTE_ADDR?

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On Aug 21, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:

> On 22/08/08 1:46 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>
>> Strange... I know that I used this a couple of years ago.
>>
>> Could there be a setting on my web server that would change this
>> behavior? Would it be a PHP setting or possibly something in the
>> server itself (Mac OS X Server/Apache)?
>>
>> If anyone knows, I'd appreciate some guidance.
>>
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> The problem is that Mac OS X Server stores this info in a non-standard
> variable. You're probably testing for:
>
> $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']
>
> Whereas OS X Server uses:
>
> $_SERVER['HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR']
>
> Been there and done that one.
>
> I now normalise the two of them thusly:
>
> if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR']))
> {
> // OS X Server uses HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR to store user IP
>
> $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR'];
> }
>
> $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>
> -- 
> Kevin Futter
> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
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