When I visit a web site, can the server identify me?

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for those that asked how to view whose visiting your myspace page, the only way I know is www.whospyme.com. You sign up for a free account and there's a code you put in the "who i'd like to meet" section on your myspace page and then you can usually see every hit that your page gets. You can see there profile picture (with a link to their profile) and even how they got to your profile, just as long as the person was on your page at least 2 to 3 seconds, which is pretty easy.

www.whospyme.com. how does that site work? i cant find a code.

Hi, I was wondering if signing up for whospyme.com is a bad idea. Are they able to sell my information or have you heard of anybody having a bad expirience with it ie. viruses, stolen information?
Thanks

So are you guys saying that when it says people visited your profile is doesn't say their name? How do you know then? Just it just say "6 people" visited your profile and then it doesn't tell you who? That's dumb. Maybe that website is a good idea then, who knows what kind of weirdos are checking you out.

I have a web site, and there is one form to receive enquiries from my web site. I want to add one more thing in my form, to receive the IP address of them who posted form to me. can I get the code for this?
tks and kind regards,

Yes, but exactly what the code is depends on the server software you're using and what software is processing that form.

how can you find out who someone is on myspace if all you have is theie ip address????

You can't.

Hi Leo, I would like to ask sort of the opposite of most of the requests above. There's a new trend that is being used on myspace,

http://new.modmyprofile.com/map.php?id=206705&st=

It's a map tracking code, it won't give profile info unless one is a user but it will track where one is from even if one is just an anonymous user browsing the page. I don't like this, it's an invasion of my privacy. I think it should be a choice and that there should be a way to block this sort of stuff. If one is wondering who is looking at their page then why have it public??? Myspace gives one the choice of making pages private or public. I, as a user do not wish to be tracked down,(even though it doesn't give an address, it does give street names... that's pretty invasive to me) if I want people to know more of me and I happend to like the page that I am browsing then I ADD them otherwise I continue on my way. I have already written myspace staff and they've had to delete the codes from a few users but I don't want to have to report this everytime I see one of those map trackers. Is there a way to protect myself from this kind of IP tracking? Something that is automatic and can be permanent? thanks!
Giada

Interesting little tool. I installed it on my MySpace page. :-) http://myspace.com/leonot

I'm actually not aware of any way to block this tool, or rather ANY tool from knowing your IP. As the article states, the only real way to do that is to use an anonymizer-like service.

Knowing the IP of the computers that connect is just a fundamental way the internet works.

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