Re: Smolt: firsboot revisited

[Jima <jima beer tclug org>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 2/15/07, Dennis Gilmore <dennis ausil us> wrote:
> > sure it could be done  if smolt was coded to do so  but if it was in a GET 
> > it
> > would be in the logs.
>
> How does one establish an HTTP connection without making your IP
> available to the server?

 Of course the IP is exposed to the server; that doesn't mean the CGI 
script needs to make use of that information (which, in this case, it 
doesn't).  The POST-vs-GET is only a matter of whether the submitted data 
(i.e., UUID) ends up in the log, the same place the IP does.

     Jima