On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Jagdeep Singh wrote: >> >> Hi All! >> >> I am looking for a solution, I want a user to do a single Login only on a >> PC >> . >> >> E.g. If a User has logged on my website website.com in Internet explorer, >> then he cant login on same website in another browser like Firefox etc >> with >> same loginid or another. >> >> Can I trace MAC address of a single machine to solve this issue? > > The browser IP address works for us quite reliably. Once logged in, you get > a message saying already logged on ... and where ... but it does need a > little help if the user closes the browser without logging out. One needs a > facility to 'bounce' a user now and again .... however some remote users may > well have 'floating' IP addresses :(
Or in some cases, they may have multiple internet connections. I used to have 2, 1 cable and 1 DSL. I used FreeBSD's PF to do 'load balance' ;) It works really well with any apps that do multiple connections. Regards, Tommy > > Cross browser on the same machine may be a little more problematic! How > would one know that it's not just from another windows of the same browser. > Browser sniffing should allow that to be included, but we've not needed to > go that far yet. > >> Or is there a concept of GLOBAL COOKIE / Cross Browser Cookie which will >> work for all browsers in a single machine.. > > Unfortunately not ... > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
