System Information in Browser

Question

Hi,

we have a license key system which requires the MAC address of the network card of the PC. To make it easier for the user, I am looking into getting the MAC address (or some other similar system identification info) with a web page.

Do Flash (or Flex), JavaScript or Java Applets provide any APIs to query system information ?

Thank you,

Paul

Answer 1

This might help you:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/839973/how-to-get-a-clients-mac-address-from-httpservlet

Answer 2

This link shows you how to get system information using JavaScript:

This article will show you how to write custom JavaScript objects 
that retrieve system information using the Windows Management 
Information (WMI) classes.

http://code.google.com/apis/desktop/articles/e3.html