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HannahI
Oct 27 2009, 11:16 PM
Hello,
How do you get infomation about the users computer and not just the user browser?
Get this straight; I'm not using Java.
Bye,
-Hannah

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rvalkass
Oct 28 2009, 12:44 PM
What sort of information are you trying to get hold of and why? Generally Javascript is only used to gather information about the browser, such as screen resolution, but can't go much further than that. The only method I can see working is through ActiveX, but that will prompt the user with a variety of security warnings, and will of course only work on Windows PCs.

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Spencer
Oct 28 2009, 08:28 PM
If you have access to server logs on the server, you pretty much have all the information you are looking for. Awstats does a great a job in segregating the data into useful information from these server logs. For more analysed statistics, google analytics is good choice.

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starscream
Oct 29 2009, 08:45 AM
If you want this information that which visitor used which os while visiting your page. Then such information can be retrieved from software like mint, awstats, webalizer, google analytics, slimstats. There are many other stats scripts that you can use for more power. But i found that GA,Awstats works well with me. You don't need java to install and use it. It's simple and if you're hosted on astahost. You've it installed already. Just open the awstats option from cpanel.

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wutske
Oct 31 2009, 03:44 PM
QUOTE (rvalkass @ Oct 28 2009, 01:44 PM) *
What sort of information are you trying to get hold of and why? Generally Javascript is only used to gather information about the browser, such as screen resolution, but can't go much further than that. The only method I can see working is through ActiveX, but that will prompt the user with a variety of security warnings, and will of course only work on Windows PCs.


I second that. Javascript can't go any further than the user's browser and it's environment. Stuff like CPU, memory, etc... isn't accessible since browsers simply don't have access to this information (for privacy reasons and simply because it's not interesting to have this information in javascript).

//edit: other languages like Java, Flash and Silverlight do have access to this information wink.gif

 

 

 


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