oh, also, the IP and or host.domain name is captured in your Apache server
access_log files. Probably all other types of servers too. It also captures
the exact time of the transaction so you can match them
bc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Miller" <jeffopensrs@hotmail.com>
To: <chuck@tucows.com>; <dev-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 7:03 AM
Subject: RE: Logging IP Address of Orders?
> Thanks for your response. I'm running Apache on my server and
> unfortunately, am not really familiar with Perl so I'm not really sure how
> to do this but I wouldn't think it would be too difficult since it just
> needs to pull the REMOTE_ADDR and save it.
>
> If there was some way to have a orders.log file (just like the mail.log
file
> in the cgi directory) that will just save the domain name or order number
> and the IP address. This IP address could then be used with a program
such
> as Visualroute (http://www.visualroute.com/) to see what country the order
> was placed from.
>
> This is the easiest way by far to tell if an order is fradulant and I'm
> surprised this hasn't been implemented in the pending orders section.
>
> I came across something that I thought might do the job searching the
> forums: http://opensrs.iwpp.com/. Unfortunately, it was just a script
that
> displayed the customers IP address on their browser.
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
> >From: "Charles Daminato" <chuck@tucows.com>
> >To: "Jeff Miller" <jeffopensrs@hotmail.com>, <dev-list@opensrs.org>
> >Subject: RE: Logging IP Address of Orders?
> >Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:44:25 -0500
> >
> >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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