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How can I get a remote user's IP using Perl?

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Re: How can I get user's IP using Perl?
by cwest (Friar) on Jul 20, 2000 at 22:24 UTC 
    $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}

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    For that matter, you could use remote_host() from CGI.pm.

    Also, try this: 

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$|++;

use CGI;

my $cgi = CGI->new;

print $cgi->header,
      $cgi->start_html,
      $cgi->pre(
                ( map { "$_\t$ENV{$_}\n" } keys %ENV )
               ), 
      $cgi->end_html;

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    That was untested, but I'm pretty sure it's right :-)
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Re: How can I get a remote user's IP using Perl?
by infoninja (Friar) on Jul 20, 2000 at 22:17 UTC
    The remote user's IP address is in $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}, although it's pretty forge-able.
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      How is it forge-able on NT?
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Re: How can I get a remote user's IP using Perl?
by sinan (Sexton) on Aug 27, 2000 at 12:36 UTC
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