David,
In this particular application they do have an email address. All the
traffic for the site is internal to the bank, which I am currently
working for, and there are no external users. As the data the site is
presenting is sensitive the PHB's want to know who is looking at it.
Registered users isn't an option because of the "management" overhead of
maintaining a user database so there are only a few "well known" user
names and passwords to log into the site.
IP addresses are not really an option because they don't have a central
database of who has got which IP address (they just dole out batches of
them to different departments).
The only other unique id I could think of was their email address. The
idea being that as the different servlets are invoked I can log who is
looking at what. However now I cannot figure out how to get their email
address.
"[David Griffin]" wrote:
>
> Alan.
>
> If you mean a user who has visited your web site and hence invoked the
> servlet, then they surely don't necessarily HAVE an email address, do they ?
> They could be sat in an internet Cafe somewhere.
>
> Are you suggesting a set session properties from the user's machine would be
> sent as part of the posy/get that would allow you to see their settings ?
> Surely that would need a nosey applet at their end as well as jut as servlet
> your end...
>
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Alan W. Smith
Bankgesellschaft, Berlin
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