Excuse my ignorance,please, but does this mean that applet to servlet communication
via sockets is not possible with AOL users??
Gary
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> Jake Brain wrote:
>
> > Curious to hear from other developers who maintain session with client ip address
>and had to deal with aol users getting invalid sessions - since aol rotates ip
>addresses. How did you solve the problem, any ideas.
> >
>
> The simple answer is, you cannot depend on client IP addresses for Internet
>applications. Even if the IP address is not being rotated, it will generally be the
>IP address of a firewall or proxy server anyway -- so
> you still cannot tell which individual PC inside the firewall originated the
>request. Indeed, the PC itself may not even *have* a real IP address -- it might be
>using the reserved Intranet address ranges (with the
> gateway providing address translation), or it might even be running a non-IP
>protocol internally (with the gateway providing protocol translation as well).
>
> This is one of the reasons why the standard session management support in the
>servlet spec uses cookies or URL rewriting, not client IP addresses, as the basis for
>session identification.
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
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