Re: Is it possible to get the ip address for the login name?

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From: Chris, Master of All Things Insignificant (chris_at_No_Spam_Please.com)
Date: 01/10/05


Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:57:41 -0600

Why not have the client machine send in the IP when the user logs into the
chat program? I can't think of an instance that the server needs to know
the user's IP if they don't have the chat program opened.

Just a thought
Chris

"rs" <ahmed1979@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1105375928.620426.301670@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Sorry for the confusion.
> I am designing an internal chat program. I don't want to create another
> program in the serverside to get the ip address of each user. I was
> wondering if it is possible to know the ip address from the login name
> of the user. I know that we can get the ip address from the computer
> name but the user might sit on a different machine everyday.
>



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