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Is it possible to get an email(with information about a visitor- IP etc.) sent every time a HTML page is loaded(Form? in onload?)?
Dec 4th, 2002 19:14
Ryan Buterbaugh, Martin Honnen, Brian Williams, Divisionsdommmerforeningen DDF93,
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/1691/fid/125/
explains how (if at all) it is possible to access the client's ip
address.
You can (with NN4) attempt to send that data from a form but the
browser warns the user that he is about to send a form via email and
asks for his confirmation to do so.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
ip address submission
</TITLE>
<STYLE>
#formLayer { position: absolute; visibility: hidden; }
</STYLE>
<SCRIPT>
function sendIP () {
if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape'
&& navigator.javaEnabled()) {
document.formLayer.document.formName.ip.value =
java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress();
document.formLayer.document.formName.submit1.click();
}
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY ONLOAD="sendIP()">
<DIV ID="formLayer">
<FORM NAME="formName"
ACTION="mailto: whomever@whereever.tld"
METHOD="post"
ENCTYPE="text/plain"
>
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="ip">
<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="submit1">
</FORM>
</DIV>
</BODY>
</HTML>
It is however best to use server side methods to log ip addresses.
