Quote Originally Posted by mike*5* View Post
Websites don't display user information such as IP addresses to anyone except administrators (or moderators, on a forum). To get users' IP addresses, you have to get them to take an action that shares this information with you.

The easiest way is to set up a temporary website and upload a server-side script (PHP, Perl, Python, etc) to log all IP addresses that request that script. Send a link only to your target user, and their current IP address will be logged for you. Remember that this IP address may have been re-allocated to a different ISP subscriber even before you got around to viewing the logs.

After this, you can use this to get the information of that user's ISP:

[url]http://www.ip2location.com/demo.aspx[/url]
Hi everyone. I have been trying to figure out how a 'member' of a forum figured out someone's IP address through a PM sent to him???. I understand from the above that that is iimpossible, but obviously this guy did and posted that information on the website that he knew this person's IP address. I suspect this 'unethical' person is the web****** of the forum but not sure of it.

I searched this forum for an answer, but i found nothing so wouuld anyone please tell me how is it it possible for a regular member to figure out an IP from a private message.

Thanks. I'm really curious because this member is abusive and I would hate to think that he is the web****** of that site knowing that he has all our private information.

thanks.