07-27-2019, 03:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-27-2019, 03:28 AM by Alexandre Machado.)
(07-23-2019, 04:58 AM)SorenJensen Wrote: Hi all,
Using a Stand Alone HTTP.SYS program as a service, running on a server:
What is the right/best way of getting either the windows login name, or any other unique information identifying the logged on user ?
I want to save users individual selections for various functions, so that the next time they use the function again, the last used selections are shown, regardless of which workstation they are logged on to. We are talking about the conditions in the where clauses of select statements. I need some kind of unique information, identifying each user. Like the Windows logon name.
Regards
Soren
That's an interesting subject (which I personally like). It is not possible to retrieve this information on modern browsers because of security reasons, as pointed out above.
Lots of companies would love to get this information (including Google, Facebook, etc) so they could know who you are and "sell" you the things that they know that you like.
It doesn't mean that there is no way to do this using other techniques. This "feature" is called browser fingerprinting. It has several practical applications, and not all are bad, as fraud prevention and user session tracking.
There are some free JS libraries which implement it and would be simple to use with IW. Of course, it could be *much* more than your requirements but, as a curiosity, here it goes:
https://clientjs.org/
https://fingerprintjs.com
https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2
I remember I used ClientJS in a project in the past...