On 2/5/07, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)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.