Re: RePost: NAT and the CART

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1999


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 24062
interpreted = N
texte = >This is getting really interesting now. I understand that WebCat is not >dependent on the IP Address of the visitor, but that makes me wonder how >it (or the Web server) can possibly tell the difference from one visitor >to the next without referring to the IP? Christer's last comment makes >the most sense, in that a proxy server is probably caching the requested >page and serving it to all the browsers on the LAN, with a cart number >already hard-coded into the page. And is it true that any IP-based >shopping cart system will fail in this way when visited via a LAN using NAT?No. NAT has nothing to do with this, AFAIK. It's the proxy you'll have to blame/fight. ************************************************************* Christer Olsson Stora Nygatan 21 Phone +46 40 791 50 Ljusa Id#233#er AB S-211 37 Malmoe Fax +46 40 97 99 77 Sweden http://www.ljusaideer.se Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Christer Olsson 1999)
  2. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Gil Poulsen 1999)
  3. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Christer Olsson 1999)
  4. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Mike_Davis 1999)
  5. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Kenneth Grome 1999)
  6. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Mike_Davis 1999)
  7. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Christer Olsson 1999)
  8. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Kenneth Grome 1999)
  9. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Mike_Davis 1999)
  10. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Gil Poulsen 1999)
  11. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Kenneth Grome 1999)
  12. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (John Jakovich 1999)
  13. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Mike_Davis 1999)
  14. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Kenneth Grome 1999)
  15. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Kenneth Grome 1999)
  16. Re: RePost: NAT and the CART (Mícheál O Sé 1999)
  17. RePost: NAT and the CART (Mike_Davis 1999)
>This is getting really interesting now. I understand that WebCat is not >dependent on the IP Address of the visitor, but that makes me wonder how >it (or the Web server) can possibly tell the difference from one visitor >to the next without referring to the IP? Christer's last comment makes >the most sense, in that a proxy server is probably caching the requested >page and serving it to all the browsers on the LAN, with a cart number >already hard-coded into the page. And is it true that any IP-based >shopping cart system will fail in this way when visited via a LAN using NAT?No. NAT has nothing to do with this, AFAIK. It's the proxy you'll have to blame/fight. ************************************************************* Christer Olsson Stora Nygatan 21 Phone +46 40 791 50 Ljusa Id#233#er AB S-211 37 Malmoe Fax +46 40 97 99 77 Sweden http://www.ljusaideer.se Christer Olsson

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