Which Web Language? Please Help

[ssvalenteno]

Hello All

I want to re-do my site www.doortodoorgeek.com (http://www.doortodoorgeek.com) (I know it needs it bad)

one thing I want to re-do is www.doortodoorgeek.com/asr.html (http://www.doortodoorgeek.com/asr.html) and make the page search your local drive to see what programs you do have installed and what programs you do not have installed. I think that asp can do this but my server does not support asp.

I have to make the page "Do as much work as possible" so the lower end users can understand what is and isn't installed.


Thanks for any help / guidance

[NogDog]

The only way you could do that is to create a program that the user would have to download and install, such as an ActiveX control. Allowing any web page to arbitrarily search the user's disk drive without his/her permission would be a serious security hole.

[ssvalenteno]

Hello NogDog
Thanks for the quick response
Active-x is only for IE, right?
I was hoping for a solution that would also work in firefox

If I can only do it in Actice-x I might do a small downloadable exe

[David Harrison]

That's a major invasion of privacy and I can't see many people letting you do that.

[ssvalenteno]

Hello David

The only people who would goto this page are users "sent" by happy customers

I am a owner of a small business, I would do no data collecting just reading for instantaneous results displayed on the page.

[felgall]

If it were possible to do then your computer (and everyone else's) would be so overloaded with spyware by now that they would be non functional. Fortunately web browsers dont allow web pages to see anything outside of the browser and only allow them to see as much browser information as the browser owner has configured their browser to allow. If you want information about a visitor's computer then you will have to write a separate program that does what you want and ask your visitors to download it, install it, and run it.

[ssvalenteno]

so it was wrote (by nogdog and felgall) so it shall be done
I will start my app

Thanks for the input

and felgall all I wanted to do was "read" some folder names