Top Document: FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about CGI Programming Previous Document: 3.1 Can I get information about who is visiting? Next Document: 3.3 "But I saw some.kool.site display my email address..." See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Why do you want to do this? The best information available is the REMOTE_ADDR and REMOTE_HOST, which tell you nothing about the user. Techniques such as "finger@" are not reliable, are widely disliked, and generally serve only to introduce long delays in your CGI. Better - as well as more polite - just to ask your users to fill in a form. BTW: the "From:" header line (HTTP_FROM variable) is usually only set by robots, since human visitors to your webpage will not normally want their addresses collected without permission, and browsers respect this. User Contributions:Top Document: FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about CGI Programming Previous Document: 3.1 Can I get information about who is visiting? Next Document: 3.3 "But I saw some.kool.site display my email address..." Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
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