PCName from users who get on site

[Joris De Groote]

Hi,

Is it possible with javascript to retrieve somebody's Computername when he
connects to a webserver? (So the webserver receives the computername of the
client).

If this is possible, any help?

Thanks
Joris

[Randy Webb]

Joris De Groote said the following on 5/18/2006 10:09 AM:

Hi,

Is it possible with javascript to retrieve somebody's Computername when he
connects to a webserver? (So the webserver receives the computername of the
client).
No.
If this is possible, any help?

Why do you need my Computername when I connect to your website?

And, what if I don't *have* a Computername?

--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Joris De Groote]

Well, you won't actually go to this site. :)
It's for an internal website and I want to know who came to the site,
however, since we use dhcp & there are different locations, I can't really
use something like an IP adress table...

So I'm looking for other ways to find out who gets on our internal website.

Joris
"Randy Webb" <Hi************@aol.com> wrote in message
news:Nb********************@comcast.com...

Joris De Groote said the following on 5/18/2006 10:09 AM:

Hi,

Is it possible with javascript to retrieve somebody's Computername when
he connects to a webserver? (So the webserver receives the computername
of the client).

No.

If this is possible, any help?

Why do you need my Computername when I connect to your website?

And, what if I don't *have* a Computername?

--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices -
http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Randy Webb]

Joris De Groote said the following on 5/22/2006 5:30 AM:

Well, you won't actually go to this site. :)
It's for an internal website and I want to know who came to the site,
however, since we use dhcp & there are different locations, I can't really
use something like an IP adress table...

So I'm looking for other ways to find out who gets on our internal website.

Please Log In:
<form name="login" action="login.php"
onsubmit="return validate(this.form)">
<input type="text" name="userName">
<input type="password" name="userPassword">
<input type="submit" value="Sign In">
</form>

And have the validate function make sure neither input is blank before
submission.

Why make it harder than it is?
--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Joris De Groote]

They don't want to login every time, that's why I'm looking for something
different.

"Randy Webb" <Hi************@aol.com> wrote in message
news:f6********************@comcast.com...

Joris De Groote said the following on 5/22/2006 5:30 AM:

Well, you won't actually go to this site. :)
It's for an internal website and I want to know who came to the site,
however, since we use dhcp & there are different locations, I can't
really use something like an IP adress table...

So I'm looking for other ways to find out who gets on our internal
website.

Please Log In:
<form name="login" action="login.php"
onsubmit="return validate(this.form)">
<input type="text" name="userName">
<input type="password" name="userPassword">
<input type="submit" value="Sign In">
</form>

And have the validate function make sure neither input is blank before
submission.

Why make it harder than it is?
--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly
Javascript Best Practices -
http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[VK]

Joris De Groote wrote:

They don't want to login every time, that's why I'm looking for something
different.

Usually in intranet / VPN authentification is handled separately and
not a preoccupation of HTTP server (it gets this info from IIS threads
and such). But if you want to reproduce WWW in your intranet then use
cookies set on the initial authentification.

[Tony]

Joris De Groote wrote:

They don't want to login every time, that's why I'm looking for something
different.

I take it that the company isn't concerned about security with this
site, then?