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List:       twig
Subject:    Re: [twig] Feature request
From:       Forrest Aldrich <forrie () forrie ! com>
Date:       2002-04-13 3:04:05
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Just a simple security feature.   Some banks, for example, do this on their 
pages to show you where and when you've accessed your account last.


At 03:51 PM 4/11/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Well, TWIG already stored the time of the last page load for each user, so it
>would be trivial to stick that somewhere.  (Since HTTP is stateless, users
>essentially re-login on every page load.)  TWIG does not store the last time
>the login form was processed, though, if that is what you are looking for.
>That would require you to do a little more work, but it's certainly doable.
>
>The IP of the client machine is another matter.  You can use $REMOTE_ADDR
>(which is what TWIG uses on outgoing mail, if $config["smtp_clientip"] is
>enabled), but that isn't always reliable.  There is quite a bit of discussion
>on how to do this in PHP in the user contributed notes on the online PHP
>manual entry for predefined variables:
>http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php .
>
>Why are you wanting to do this anyway?  Screen real estate is already pretty
>tight in TWIG.
>
>
>--
>Craig Foster
>craig@wiw.org
>
>Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> said:
>
> > How about something that will, optionally, say:
> >
> >       Last logged in on:  Mon Apr  1 12:56:06 EST 2002
> >       From:   some.host.com (123.45.67.89)
> >
> >
> >
> > Forrest
> >

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