Using V 7

[Big Mike]

Hi there,
Is there a way to display the users IP and hostname on the checkout screen
in an attempt to scare away internet scammers? The only Javascript codes I
could find are for Netscape browser versions only.
Thanks

[loren_d_c]

Most internet scammers probably already assume that you are logging
their IP and either use someone else's computer, a public computer, or
just don't care because they are in some far away country that doesn't
prosecute internet crimes against US merchants.

However, if you want to keep the dumb theives honest, and you have
ShopSite v7 Manager or v7 Pro, you can create a custom shopping cart
template and use the [-- IP_ADDR --] tag in the template wherever you
want to display the IP address (see
http://www.shopsite.com/help/7.0/en-US/ ... et.sc.html)

Since the IP address of the shopper's computer can only be reliably
determined on your server, yet JavaScript is executed by the shopper's
browser on their own computer, I do not believe JavaScript is really
capable of doing this detection by itself. The only JavaScript examples
I have seen to do this rely on a bit of SSI (server side include) code
which is something that will not work from a cgi screen such as the
ShopSite shopping cart screens (although if your host allows it, you
could do it on all your store's normal HTML pages). For an example, see
http://javascript.internet.com/user-det ... dress.html

-Loren




Big Mike wrote:

Hi there,
Is there a way to display the users IP and hostname on the checkout screen
in an attempt to scare away internet scammers? The only Javascript codes I
could find are for Netscape browser versions only.
Thanks

[Big Mike]

Thank you again for your help. I didn't realize there was a shopsite
template tag for this.

"Loren" <loren_d_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ckkqur$lto$1@eval.shopsite.com...

Most internet scammers probably already assume that you are logging
their IP and either use someone else's computer, a public computer, or
just don't care because they are in some far away country that doesn't
prosecute internet crimes against US merchants.

However, if you want to keep the dumb theives honest, and you have
ShopSite v7 Manager or v7 Pro, you can create a custom shopping cart
template and use the [-- IP_ADDR --] tag in the template wherever you
want to display the IP address (see

http://www.shopsite.com/help/7.0/en-US/ ... et.sc.html)

Since the IP address of the shopper's computer can only be reliably
determined on your server, yet JavaScript is executed by the shopper's
browser on their own computer, I do not believe JavaScript is really
capable of doing this detection by itself. The only JavaScript examples
I have seen to do this rely on a bit of SSI (server side include) code
which is something that will not work from a cgi screen such as the
ShopSite shopping cart screens (although if your host allows it, you
could do it on all your store's normal HTML pages). For an example, see
http://javascript.internet.com/user-det ... dress.html

-Loren




Big Mike wrote:
Hi there,
Is there a way to display the users IP and hostname on the checkout
screen
in an attempt to scare away internet scammers? The only Javascript codes
I
could find are for Netscape browser versions only.
Thanks