[Gllug] IP address changes

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 04:45:32PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:

> Basically no, you cannot rely on the IP address being constant.
> Session highjacking is very uncommon anyway, and if you're concerned
> at all about security a better solution is to encrypt everything using
> https.

I don't want to pay the cost of https, checking the IP address was a cheap
extra check. Drat!

> For AOL's proxy details look at:
> 
> http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html

Ta.

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