[ale] JavaScript and server address

[Ned Williams]

umm if your on a linux box why not do....

tcpdump port 80 -i (your interface here)

then just look for where your browser is talking to?

Ned


On 6/5/07, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:59 -0500, Katherine Villyard wrote:
> > If that doesn't do it, try having a server side scripting language
> > (php,
> > whatever) generate the javascript and let the server include the IP
> > address as a variable in that generated script.
>
> I'm not sure how well that would work since the interface you are using
> on the server all depends on where you are coming from.
>
> Some of these servers could have well eth0, eth1, and pppN.  Depending
> on where you are coming from the address could be different.
>
> For example one of my customers has a server on the address of
> 192.168.0.40 on their internal network.  When I access the web interface
> I use 192.168.3.100.  So getting the address of where the page came from
> like a Java Applet may do it is the only way for this client program to
> make a connection.  I guess server side could do a getsockname() on the
> FD and would conclude that 192.168.3.100 is the correct address.  So
> your suggestion may work when the address used to connect to the web
> server could be from any list of addresses.
>
>
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