Re: RePost: NAT and the CART
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 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
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>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
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