Somebody asked how to insert the caller's host address
as the default value into an input field, leaving the user
the chance to amend it (if, for example, they are using
a proxy, in which case the proxy's IP address
or DNS name would appear and they'd want to change that).
Here's two methods, using server side includes.
Since this is a Server Side Include, it will have
been processed by the time that you get it, so you won't be
able to see how it has been done.
However, I have prepared an
alias for the source file,
which you can view in order to see the HTML source
document before it has been processed for SSI.
By the way, this input file gets rejected by all the HTML
validators, which is fair enough since an SGML comment isn't
valid right in the midst of an HTML construction.
However, the Server Side Include feature
of the NCSA or Apache HTTPDs honour it just fine;
and so a validator that
references the URL (and gets the document after it's been
processed for SSI) is quite happy with it.
This all works fine, so long as the character string can be inserted
into HTML without further processing. If the string contains
HTML-significant characters such as ampersand (&), less-than
(<) etc., then you'd need to give the matter additional thought,
depending on just what context you're dealing with and which characters
are expected.