clients ip address in an HTA document 1

[wenche1]

Hi Guys

We have a HTA solution for our Intranet and I am looking for a way to pick up the clients IP address and store it as a hidden variable in the HTA so it can be sent as a login (rather than normal login with name/password) Is this doable??

May be this is not the right place for this question, but hope someone would answer anyway

Thanks
Wenche

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You'd have to do this server-side.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[theniteowl]

wenche1, if your app uses a web server then it is easiest to get the ip address from the server.

If you are running your HTA as a standalone app on the desktop then you could use a shell to grab the data.

Look at this link:

http://www.dougknox.com/utility/scripts_desc/find_ip.htm

It has a vbs file that will do a lookup of all ipaddresses on the current PC using wscript.shell and the FileSystemObject.
It can be simplified a bit for your own use. It is VBScript rather than Javascript but there is not a lot of difference between the two if you wanted to convert it.

Good luck.

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[tsuji]

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This function will give you the ip address(es) including connected ppp adapters.
[tt]
function getipaddr() {
var fso=new ActiveXObject("scripting.filesystemobject");
var stmpfolder = fso.GetSpecialFolder(2); //temporary folder:2
var stmpname = fso.GetTempName();
var stmppath=stmpfolder+"\\"+stmpname;
(new ActiveXObject("wscript.shell")).run ("%comspec% /c ipconfig.exe > " + stmppath,0,true);
var sdata=fspenTextFile(stmppath).ReadAll();
fso=null;
var adata=sdata.split(/\n/g);
var aipaddr=new Array();
for (var i=0;i<adata.length;i++) {
if (adata.toLowerCase().indexOf("ip address") != -1) {
var acomp=adata.split(/:/g);
if (acomp[1].replace(/\s/g,"") !="0.0.0.0") {
aipaddr.push (acomp[1].replace(/ /g,""));
}
}
}
return aipaddr;
}
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And you can store the data to the page. This is how just to alert what you get after calling the function.
[tt]
var aipaddr=getipaddr();

for (var i=0;i<aipaddr.length;i++) {
window.alert(aipaddr);
}
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[tsuji]

Amendment
>[self]aipaddr.push (acomp[1].replace(/ /g,""));
should be read:
[tt]aipaddr.push (acomp[1].replace(/[blue]\s[/blue]/g,""));[/tt]

 

[wenche1]

Thanks guys for great response and yes, I need to find IP on the client machine and tsuji gave me even the code
Thanks alot tsuji, you earn a star for that

Keep up the good work guys, this is most helpful to us

Wenche