I just pulled these log entries from a site on my server. The IP changed with every single hit. This is a very lightly trafficked site so it's impossible many simultaneous AOL users were visiting the site. 205.188.116.5 - - [31/Oct/2005:15:52:47 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4521 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20020924 AOL/7.0" 0 www.wmjwj.org 205.188.117.12 - - [31/Oct/2005:15:52:49 -0500] "GET /misc/drupal.css HTTP/1.0" 200 9377 "http://wmjwj.or g/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20020924 AOL/7.0" 0 www.wmjwj.org 205.188.116.68 - - [31/Oct/2005:15:52:50 -0500] "GET /sites/wmjwj.org/modules/event/event.js HTTP/1.0" 20 0 717 "http://wmjwj.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20020924 AOL/7 .0" 0 www.wmjwj.org 205.188.116.72 - - [31/Oct/2005:15:52:50 -0500] "GET /sites/wmjwj.org/modules/event/event.css HTTP/1.0" 2 00 5382 "http://wmjwj.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20020924 AOL /7.0" 0 www.wmjwj.org 205.188.116.7 - - [31/Oct/2005:15:52:51 -0500] "GET /sites/wmjwj.org/themes/bluemarine_custom/style.css H TTP/1.0" 200 6006 "http://wmjwj.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20 020924 AOL/7.0" 0 www.wmjwj.org 205.188.117.71 - - [31/Oct/2005:15:52:52 -0500] "GET /misc/menu-leaf.png HTTP/1.0" 200 108 "http://wmjwj. org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20020924 AOL/7.0" 0 www.wmjwj.org 205.188.116.72 - - [31/Oct/2005:15:52:52 -0500] "GET /misc/menu-collapsed.png HTTP/1.1" 200 108 "http://w mjwj.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20020924 AOL/7.0" 0 www.wmjwj .org 205.188.116.13 - - [31/Oct/2005:15:52:52 -0500] "GET /sites/wmjwj.org/files/logo.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 32875 "http://wmjwj.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20020924 AOL/7.0" 0 www.wmjwj.org On 11/6/05, neil@civicspacelabs.org <neil@civicspacelabs.org> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 01:54:20PM -0500, Steve Dondley wrote:
Some ISP's, like AOL, change a user's IP address from one page view to the next. It seems like this might cause a problem for the new forms API which uses the IP address to create a token used to validate a form. The IP address collected from the user when used the form gets loaded could be different from the IP address seen when submitting it.
I used AOL two years ago and I had a consistent IP throughout each session. And if inconsistent IPs do happen (as they did in my office a few months ago) the session handling gets very confused.
-Neil
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