Re: advice needed - secure transfer of client details

[Richard Moore <rich () westpoint ltd uk>]

Tim James wrote:
> This is a brain teaser. I have an application to
> review which supplies details from the client's
> workstation (derived from files on disk, hostname, IP
> address). It currently implements a Java applet whose
> job is to obtain these details and send them up to the
> server in an ordinary HTTP POST. 

You can at least get the IP address at the server end by examining
the peer address of the socket the POST request comes in on.

Cheers

Rich.
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