Lan, why don't you wrap the flex application in a simple .jsp or .php, and let that file take care of the IP using a session or something of the sort?
Best regards Terius lanlin998 wrote: > > Adam, > > Thanks for the suggestion. You are exactly right about the > anonymous client login. However, we don't just have anonymous > users. Here is the goal: We have two types of clients: one from a > unique touch-screen panel mounted on the wall that stays in a fixed > location. Since there is no keyboard available, the server would > automatically let the browser from the touch-screen host log in. > The other type of client is any regular browser that come form any > where. The server will require this type of user to enter user name > and password. So far, we can only think of using the IP to > identilfy the touch-screen host from the rest. Since the client is > written in FLASH and can't get the client IP to the server, we > thought about let the backend auto detect the client IP and let the > user login without a password. But our backend uses axis/tomcat. Do > you know a way that the axis web service can get the client IP? > > I am so stuck! Can't believe a simple thing like that can be so > hard. Any help is very appreciated! > > Lan >
