Sure it makes sense. But the quality of data is questionable any
time you depend on a client-side app.
-dhs
Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH
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On Oct 27, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Dave Bellevue wrote:
Short story is that we 'deliver' applications to machines in a
corporate
environment by initiating pulls via Marimba.
We were doing this with .NET, and were able to gather information
about the
machine and verify that all the things were in place before a user
requested
an app - getting the machine name allowed us to track what was
delivered,
verifying that the correct processes were running so that the app
would
actually be delivered, a value stored in the registry told us that the
machine was actually a valid corporate image.
In this 'new' environment, we don't have the .net framework
installed on the
client side, and have machines that may not even be able to run it...
Currently we aren't able to get ANY info off of the client.
The more information we are able to gather, the better we can
target the
machine.
Make any sense?
Thanks,
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean H.
Saxe
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:03 AM
To: discussion@acfug.org
Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Client side
You can't trust any client side information... so why are HTTP
headers any
less reliable than getting data from the registry? Also,
what kind of data you get depends on the access level of the user.
I wouldn't let just any code run client side and collect that type of
information, its usually a hallmark of spyware.
What exactly are you trying to do?
-dhs
Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or
that we
are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
On Oct 27, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Dave Bellevue wrote:
I've been away from CF for a while, but am coming back into MX7....
Need to know what is the best (and/or easiest) way run code on the
client machine - we need to gather information from the registry,
find
things like the machine name (http header vars are not reliable) and
determine if processes are running and then pass that info into a
page.
Thanks,
Dave Bellevue
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