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Re: Source code to identify user through browser?

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Date 2013-06-05 10:28 -0400
Subject Re: Source code to identify user through browser?
From Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.2731.1370442537.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Gilles <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I was wondering if some Python module were available to identify a
> user through their browser, like it's done on the Panopticlick site:
>
> http://panopticlick.eff.org/
>
> I'd like to ban abusive users, and it seems like a good solution,
> since few users will think of installing a different browser, and
> there are few mainstream browsers anyway.
>
> Thank you.
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

depending upon the server  you are using, there is a request object that
contains information about the user (ip address, and lots of other stuff).
Maybe that will help you.





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Joel Goldstick
http://joelgoldstick.com

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Source code to identify user through browser? Gilles <nospam@nospam.com> - 2013-06-05 15:08 +0200
  Re: Source code to identify user through browser? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-06-05 10:28 -0400
  RE: Source code to identify user through browser? Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-05 18:10 +0300
    Re: Source code to identify user through browser? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-05 08:18 -0700
      Re: Source code to identify user through browser? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-05 16:31 +0100
        Re: Source code to identify user through browser? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-05 09:20 -0700
      RE: Source code to identify user through browser? Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-06-06 01:07 +0300
      Dijkstra (was Re: Source code to identify user through browser?) Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-06-05 20:07 -0400

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