Front Page Form Sending Address

[Kathie M. Thomas]

How do you get the form to show who it was filled out by, when you receive
it? Currently it shows the sender as my server address but I want it to
pick up the address of the person who filled out the form. I know there
must be a way to do it but I can't figure it out. I'm using Frontpage 2000.

With thanks in advance

Kathie
http://www.vadirectory.net

 

[Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv]

Dear Kathie,

I am not sure what you want to collect. There are three ways:

1) You can quietly collect, say, a visitor's IP address in on an .asp
page using the string:

<%=Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")%>

therefore, you can collect a visitor's address in a form by adding the
line in the code

<input type="hidden" name="IPAddress"
value="<%=Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")%>">

inside the form, and collect the value "IPAddress" at the receiver of
your form. This doesn't always work because people use proxy servers
and other IP obfuscators to hide their IP addresses.

2) You can ask them in the form, directly, with a question like,

Who are you, really?

3) You can hack a visitor's computer when they visit your site; we
don't like to discuss that here.

Whichever of my 3 ways you choose, good luck, Kathie. I expect great
things from you - you pose interesting questions.

Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv