Hardware Detection on a web page

[Krolik]

Hi.

I'm not sure if this has been covered

Is it possible to do hardware detection on a webpage?

Basically I need to determine OS type, CPU speed, memory size and free drive
space on C: using a web page.

If the machine is not a Windows PC (Mac, Linux, etc.) then the test can automatically fail as it does not meet requirements

I will admit that I'm quite a newbie at this kind of thing so I'm not sure of which
direction to go...

[Jason]

You would need to make some sort of java or maybe flash app to detect this stuff. Typically most of this stuff is not sent when a page request is made. Usually the browser type is sent along with some networking data like IP address.

[is_numeric]

you have no chance!

You would have to write an app (Flash, .NET) which could query the COM and one which has permission to do this. The permission would have to be granted by the user of course and any user who clicks "YES I WILL ALLOW THIS WEBSITE TO ACCESS MY COMPUTER" should really be licking windows than surfing the net.

[<CrGeary.com/>]

I suppose you could do it somehow, I don't have a clue how, the closest thing I can think of would be to execute this code on a PHP server and see if you can put any of it to use. It doesn't really tell you much that you could use. it tells you the browser (including if its a windows or mac version of that browser etc.)

PHP Code:

<pre>
<?php print_r($_SERVER); ?>
</pre>