Problem getting Logon_User first time round

[furtivevole]

Hi

In an intranet application (asp/VBS), I want to be able to capture various details about the user. Request.ServerVariables("Remote_addr&quot always returns the correct IP address, but Request.ServerVariables("Logon_User&quot used in the same way usually returns nothing. (When a string is returned however, it is correct.) The only way I can often get the Remote_addr is by refreshing the page, sometimes several times. (This is fairly, but not absolutely, consistent behaviour.)

Any ideas on the cause of this, or an elegant way of getting round it?

Thanks, Linnet

 

[FengShui1998]

Linnet,

In a corporate network, if a user needs access to certain web pages, they are validated against their account in a domain. In my case, we are validated against our NT domain.
This is where the Request.ServerVariables("Logon_User&quot string comes from.

However in the case of the Internet, a user who logs in at home on his/her own machine, is not validated by any accounting system. Thus, when that user accesses an Internet web site, Request.ServerVariables("Logon_User&quot is blank, unless they are further required to login to a corporate network. Hope this helps.

fengshui_1998