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<!-- The following spreadsheet magic outputs text conditionally based on view/viewauth and guest/not guest --> Hello TWiki Guest, you are using IP address 38.103.63.60.

You are currently not logged in (try to login); or you are logged in as TWikiGuest (in which case you need to restart your browser if you want to login with your own account).

Background Information

TWiki.org uses BasicAuthentication^? with IP address based session tracking. The advantage is that there is a very low requirement on the client side. Any browser is supported, even those without cookies.

There is a drawback however. IP address based session tracking fails if people share an IP address, e.g. a whole company might expose just one IP address through a NAT. In this case TWiki.org might tell you that you are someone else in your organization.

-- PeterThoeny^? - 12 Feb 2005

Discussions

Why are we not using what I suggest in RememberUserBug^??

-- SvenDowideit^? - 12 Feb 2005

That approach seems to have a drawback, see my reply in RememberUserBug^?.

-- PeterThoeny^? - 12 Feb 2005

Changed the view/not guest message because I didn't like the grammar of "not me?" and "not you?" seemed a bit impolite.

-- SamHasler^? - 12 Feb 2005