Get info from the DOS-command: SET in an application

[Guest_imported]

Im making a application to log info when a user on our intranet is cliking on a link.
All the info I want to log is shown when you run the DOS-command: SET, but how can a put that in my application?

 

[dilettante]

Sounds like you're talking about the environment variables' values.

The easiest way to do what you want is to make a custom browser they have to use. This isn't as extreme as it sounds, since most of IE is readily available in an easy-to-use ActiveX control. But it IS unlikely that people won't use IE or Netscrape or even Outlook or something directly.

I can't imagine any way to make this browser-neutral, and at best you're going to end up with ActiveX security popups all over. Environment variables are accessible via script, but not using objects normally acceptable on a web page (for security reasons).

You said "intranet." Can't you use what's captured in your web server logs to achieve your goals here?

 

[Guest_imported]

The info that is logged in the web-server isnt't enough.
Im missing one important thing, username of the person on the client.

 

[dilettante]

Normally people do this using Integrated Windows Authentication at the web server. Then the user's ID is available from an ASP server environment variable (see LOGON_USER at the second reference below).

If these people are part of your web server's domain or workgroup they'll never see a prompt. If they aren't, they'll have to log on at least the first time they hit your web site.

Check out:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnw2kmag00/html/iis5auth.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/iisref/html/psdk/asp/vbob5vsj.asp

If you aren't using ASP, there MIGHT be something available via FrontPage extensions, but I doubt it. I just don't think the browser will let you see the client machine's envoronment variables. Otherwise you'd see piratical outfits like double-click doing that and selling it along with the rest of your profile they've been scooping up.

 

[Guest_imported]

Yes LOGON_USER would have worked if our network had been microsoft, but except for the web-server we have Novell servers and the LOGON_USER only handles windows-accounts, not NDS.

And the Integrated Windows Authentication only works with IE and we use Netscape.. so Im sad to say that this didn't help me.