passive file()? ie: forward user ip not server?

[suffeks]

i have a php file in which i'm fetching a file from, so something like:

$lines = file("blablabla");

of course the location of the file (where i have a log running, different server), keeps showing me the IP of my server hosting that php source, is there any method/way to do it so it shows the IP of the user running the php file?

[drew010]

not really, when php uses file() its really just a wrapper for other socket functions and since the functions are executed by your server, and not the client the request is passed from your server, so it gives the ip along with it.

[suffeks]

what about another way, sockets, some kind of forwarding, anything?

[drew010]

not really all that stuff will be done by your server connecting to the log script and there arent functions that can tell the users computer to connect to a server and send data unless you directly forward them to it. you may have to pass a variable of their ip along with the call to file() and change the script to read that variable and log it accordingly.

[suffeks]

so without doing it that way, there is no other?

[drew010]

nothing that i can think of besides using a java applet or activex plugin