Hi! I wonder how i can retrive the MAC-address of the visitor using PHP?
What i am thinking about is using the MAC-address instead of the IP-address to ban troublesome users from forums etc. If i just use the IP-address some users will just change it. I know that itīs possibly to spoof the MAC address but itīs much harder than just changing the IP-address. Do you think that there is a big speed penalty by using the MAC-address? I could just use it when the users first arrives to the site. Then he/she could be logged in using a session the rest of his visit. I could also store the MAC-address of the user in encoded form in a cookie so that i wonīt have to retrive the MAC-address "the hard way" on every visit. Comments and tips would be greatly appreciated! Yours supersinerely, Yngve -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
