Re: Where am I ... Take 2

Lester Caine wrote: > Having now worked out the correct questions to ask, I've now discovered > that the magic value that I need to read via the browser is > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment\ViewClient_Machine_Name Um, are you sure that is the correct key? HKEY_CURRENT_*USER* seems doubtful. > This will apparently contain the asset number of the machine I need to > identify. It's IP address will not be contained in the browser header > since that is provided via the load sharing from a poll of IP addresses > managed by the VDI system rather than the physical IP address of the > machine. > > I believe that I need the customer to run something on the desktop in > order to make the variable available via the browser. It can't be read > direct via javascript? No, access to the registry is hopefully impossible via browser-side JavaScript (otherwise that would be a security hole, IMHO). However, it might not be necessary to "run something" on the desktop; in the simplest case an appropriate shortcut to "start" the web application might suffice. If the value of the environment variable COMPUTERNAME would be okay, it is as simple as: http://www.example.com/computername=%COMPUTERNAME% (See <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21315708/reading-environment-variables-with-javascript>.) If you really need to send the value of a registry key, a small batch script should do the trick. -- Christoph M. Becker