HTTP: can GET and POST requests from a same machine come from different IPs?
- by NoozNooz42
I'm pretty sure I remember reading --but cannot find back the links anymore-- about this: on some ISP (including at least one big ISP in the U.S.) it is possible to have a user's GET and POST request appearing to come from different IPs.
(note that this is totally programming related, and I'll give an example below)
I'm not talking about having your IP adress dynamically change between two requests.
I'm talking about this:
IP 1: 123.45.67.89
IP 2: 101.22.33.44
The same user makes a GET, then a POST, then a GET again, then a POST again and the servers see this:
- GET from IP 1
- POST from IP 2
- GET from IP 1
- POST from IP 2
So altough it's the same user, the webserver sees different IPs for the GET and the POSTs.
Surely seen that HTTP is a stateless protocol this is perfectly legit right?
I'd like to find back the explanation as to how/why certain ISP have their networks configured such that this may happen.
I'm asking because someone asked me to implement the following IP filter and I'm pretty sure it is fundamentally broken code (breaking havoc for at least one major american ISP users).
Here's a Java servlet filter that is supposed to protect against some attacks. The reasoning is that:
"For any session filter checks that IP address in the request is the same that was used when session was created. So in this case session ID could not be stolen for forming fake sessions."
http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/protectsessionsflt.htm
However I'm pretty sure this is inherently broken because there are ISPs where you may see GET and POST coming from different IPs.
Any info on this subject is very welcome.
