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How can I get the user's computer name?
Apr 29th, 2001 00:34
Colin Fraser, Richard Brennan,
I am not sure you can for a number of reasons. The main one for me would
be "Why would you want to?" As a developer, even if you are only
developing your own pages and never work commercially, you are still
obligated to respect the privacy of another user. Added to that is the
idea that if you could get such information then what other information
is really available to you from the user's computer? Does this not make
any computer vulnerable? My word it does. How would you feel about one
of Bill Gates' Sith lords rooting around inside your computer checking
out your software, or maybe a Borg trying to sell you a new router
because they can see you don't have one and they can see you have
networked your old computer to your new one.
However, if you are wanting to get the user's name you can always ask,
try an alert :
<body>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
//This script prompts a user for their name and writes it to the page
var username = prompt ("Please write your name below","Here, thank
you");
document.write("Hello " + username + ", and welcome");
</SCRIPT>
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