IP address lock

[mmclaughlin]

So what I would love to have is the ability to lock down a Frog site by IP address.  The thought behind this is that we need to be able to prevent students from accessing a specific site unless they are in the school.  It is for testing as well as corrective education.  Can this be done in html?

Matt

[Graham Quince]

This is a tricky one.  Right now, due to the many different ways it's possible to host Frog, detecting where the user is in relation is not straight-forward.  

However, I do know that the following php code:

<?php

header("Content-Type: text/plain");
print("Your IP address is: " . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . "\n");
print("You connected to: " . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . "\n");
print("Which internally resolves to: " . gethostbyname($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) . "\n");

?>

sits on the Frog server at the top level:

https://yourfrogaddress/ipaddress.php

It might be possible then to use the HTML widget to check this page, split the contents to get the IP address in Javascript, then hide elements based on the result.

[mmclaughlin]

So what you are saying is that we may be able to pull this and do a query that compares IP to IP and if IP matches then it shows PDF if it does not, it shows a statement that it can be only accessed in the school.