Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:10:11 -0700
From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
Subject: [webricken:150] getting the uid of the incoming browser?
To: webricken@notwork.org
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I'd like to tweak WEBrick so that it will only respond to the user
that started it (i.e., the user whose uid matches WEBrick's).  We
can assume, for simplicity's sake, that the user is running a web
browser on the same (Unixish) machine as WEBrick.

I _suspect_ that WEBrick can get the needed information by looking
at the incoming socket (e.g., for a pid), than researching which
uid that pid has.  Unfortunately, I know little about the innards
of sockets and even less about the innards of WEBrick.

Comments, clues, and suggestions are all welcome.

-r
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