I've seen AOL use a different IP address for the HTML page, the CSS file, each image on the page, and each javascript file on the page, yet know it was all the same person due to all being from the same login session. Each request goes through the proxy farm and comes out a random point in it, making IP authentication of sessions useless when dealing with an AOL user. I have had to modify several other things in the past to use an overridden IP address for session authentication when the user was on AOL due to this. They think that by doing this they are "protecting" their users, BTW, or at least that is their excuse for it. The last time I saw the option to stop doing that there were three warnings associated with turning it off, each of them designed to be scary-looking. The last of the warnings urged the user to turn it back on as soon as they could. That part may have changed, I haven't actually looked at an AOL user's computer in a couple of years. Thomas Berezansky Quoting "Jason Stephenson" <jstephenson@mvlc.org>:
Quoting "MJ Ray" <mjr@phonecoop.coop>:
Krishnan Mani <krishnanm75@yahoo.com> wrote: [...]
it is likely that your AOL user may be experiencing a change of their IP addresses. [...]
Unless AOL change their IP addresses more often than once per minute (anyone know if that's the case?), that doesn't seem likely to me.
AOL proxies can change that fast, because AOL can dynamically switch proxies on the customer between HTTP requests. They run a proxy farm as I understand it.
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