Top Document: FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about CGI Programming Previous Document: SECTION 3 - TECHNIQUES: "HOW DO I..." Next Document: 3.2 Can I get the email of visitors? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge *sigh* Many people keep mailing me questions or suggested hacks to get visitor information, particularly email addresses. It seems they won't take "NO" for an answer. The bottom line is that whatever information is available to _you_ is _equally_ available to every spammer on the net. Therefore when a browser bug _does_ permit personal data to be collected, it gets reported and fixed very quickly (one short-lived Netscape 2.0.x release reportedly had such a bug in its Javascript engine). You can get some limited information from the environment variables passed to you by the browser. Relatively few of these are guaranteed to be available, and some may be misleading. For particular types of information, see below. For full details, see NCSA's reference pages. User Contributions:Top Document: FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about CGI Programming Previous Document: SECTION 3 - TECHNIQUES: "HOW DO I..." Next Document: 3.2 Can I get the email of visitors? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
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