On 2/5/07, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
I wasn't aware that the client IP address was visible in Javascript, and I saw no such code in that file. It's not much different from having an external link in an article.
Except it's one that all contributors follow every time they go to the page. It's not much different from, say, the ads you see on most pages on the Internet, though. Or, for that matter, visiting an external site that you haven't already vetted, which I suppose is what you were getting at. This is the Internet, people, everyone knows your IP address.