tobeyt23 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 How can you capture or can you capture the end users MAC address when they visit your site? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/90698-mac-address/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameYin Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I don't think you can. I think you can only capture someones IP address. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/90698-mac-address/#findComment-464911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobeyt23 Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 What does anyone recommend as a identifier for an end users other than the IP address? Working on a media rich site that will allow uploading and want to tag the uploads with this as a trace back. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/90698-mac-address/#findComment-464916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 The IP address is as good as you are going to get. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/90698-mac-address/#findComment-464988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 The only information you receive with every request to a web site is the IP address (from the data packet) and the information that comes from the browser (cookies, any information in the URL, such as page names, paths, and parameters on the end of the url, form data...) Most of the people on the planet connect to the Internet with a dynamically assigned IP address. There is no guarantee that they will have the same IP address for any two visits, everyone behind a single router will have the same IP address, and a completely different person can receive the same IP address that someone else just used. That leaves information that the browser supplies. Typically cookies are used. However, if you are not requiring a cookie to be present, someone can simply delete the cookie if they want to appear to be a different visitor. So, you really need to require a cookie and that cookie is associated with a person who has supplied valid login credentials against an account they have created on your web site. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/90698-mac-address/#findComment-465222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuhtzu Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 The only way to improve from using IP / cookie is to make the users have an account, but then again they can create more than one account - at least if they want to bother creating a new e-mail address ect. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/90698-mac-address/#findComment-465254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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