Very Computer

When a user logs onto an Apache web site with a browser (IE, NetScape,Etc),
by what mechanism does the server get the users ISP name login name, etc.
And can apache be configured to return this information. What is it that
give me (anyone) away to the server.??????? Or, looked at another way. What
does my ISP do to prvent my information from being sent to the apache
server??????

Thanks
Jeff

Your browser is not aware of your ISP login name.
The only things that the httpd (webserver) such as apache can glean are
:

        * Browser type / version
        * Your IP address (which it could resolve into a hostname)

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        Raj Dutt
        Voxel Dot Net, Inc

This will usually be from information that has been previously stored in a
cookie, yes.

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All sorts of tricky and unreliable ways.  Or ask.

Quote:> Do cookies do that?

Not in themselves, no.  If the user has supplied the information before,
and the server has retained it in a cookie-indexed database, then a
cookie can enable the server to look it up again.  But they can't create
information out of nothing.

It can, however, be configured to try and fetch it, if your machine is
running an ident server to provide it.  (Unix systems often do.)
This is very slow (particularly if you machine isn't running any such
service) and unreliable (you may be running the service and use it to lie
about your username).  The $REMOTE_USER CGI variable would return this
username to CGI scripts.

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Reinier