Linux Gazette: Developing Web Applications - Part II

"As I promised, I was going to give you guys another example of a php3 program. This program is a very simple program, and yet somewhat useful."

"One night, I was at the university working and I tried to call home to talk to my wife. Unfortunately, I had left my computer connected that day, and could not get through. So, since my computer was running Apache, I decided to scan through the IPs of my ISP , and find out which computer was my computer, so I could telnet to it, and remotely disconnect it."

"The fastest, and simplest way to do this was either through php3 or java, but since I am not very fond of java applets, I decided to do it in php3."

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