Well, it depends really on the webserver you're using and how it handles
those variables, but if you're using Apache you can snag the
$ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}
I don't know *exactly* how it works, but the OpenSRS code (check out
Client.pm or XML_Client.pm) will grab this information.
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - chuck@tucows.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev-list@opensrs.org [mailto:owner-dev-list@opensrs.org]On
> Behalf Of Jeff Miller
> Sent: November 6, 2001 3:29 PM
> To: dev-list@opensrs.org
> Subject: Logging IP Address of Orders?
>
>
> I just finished setting everything up on my account and was wondering if
> there is a way to log the IP address of every order submitted.
>
> I've been doing web hosting for over three years and about 60% of
> the orders
> I receive are fraud. The easiest way to tell is to take the IP
> address off
> the order and do a Traceroute using VisualRoute. It will show
> you where the
> order was placed from. Most of the time the fraudulant orders I receive
> have all the correct info of a US resident, name, address,
> telephone number.
> When I see the order was placed in Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc. I
> delete it.
>
> Back when I first started web hosting I didn't think about getting orders
> with stolen credit card numbers. This ended up costing me over a
> thousand
> dollars due having to pay my web host and the $25 chargeback fees.
>
>
> Is there some way to log the IP address of orders? I don't even want to
> think about accepting any domain orders until this is possible.
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
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