Hi everyone, I posted several weeks ago trying to determine if there was a definitive method to retrieve the IP address of a visitor to my Web site. My real motivation was simply to determine if the visitor was browsing from our LAN or from outside our organization. A number of suggestions were made and there was some disagreement about how useful such a thing would be and if it was doable at all. I'm glad to report that it is doable--at least for my purposes. I ended up using an Apache module called mod_proxy_add_forward. This module adds an HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header that contains the visitor's IP address even if your Zope if running behind Apache. If your visitor is on a NAT'ed network then you'll get the IP address of his or her proxy server. This works perfectly for me and since this module is available as a Debian package total installation time was less than one minute. (Gotta love apt-get!) I've written up a How-To at Zope.org describing it in more detail. It should be available at http://www.zope.org/Members/TWilson/GettingVisitorsIP. I would appreciate feedback on this How-To. Thanks for all the suggestions that have been made on this topic in the past couple weeks. They are very helpful. One final note: please don't use this for controlling access to your site. IP addresses are too easily faked. -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.com W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org wilson@visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com