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From: jcaron@pressimage.net (Jacques Caron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Appache WWW Server - Help needed
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:48:37 +0200
Organization: Pressimage, France
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In article <40ub42$4um@palmer.demon.co.uk>, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary
Palmer) wrote:
[blah blah want user ID]
>>The user ID? How would you know that? And what is a user ID on a PC or a
>>Macintosh?
>>HTTP doesn't provide such info, so you can't get it.
>True, but there is a hard, and un-reliable way of doing it. You can probably
>hack your WWW server to use the `auth' port on the client machine to
>find out the username. This has several drawbacks:
[snip]
You also forgot to mention proxy servers, which won't answer anything
sensical to this kind of request, I guess...
Jacques.
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