[4507] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Question about User Identity (CGI scripting)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert P Cunningham)
Wed Feb 19 17:28:12 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 08:58 WET
From: bob@lava.net (Robert P Cunningham)
To: ammon@ikx.org, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>... capture the user's real account name via his/her browser?
Strange. I've always wanted the exact opposite: to capture the
real name of the personal actually responsible for a site via my
browser.
[Currently there is no way. Even and site maintainer LINKs and
email addresses are surprisingly rare. The only workaround I've
found is to try to do a whois or rwhois and call or email the
Technical Contact for the domain. But sometimes those folks don't
answer their phones or email...]
