Re: Logging users' plugins - Apache on Linux

Try this for starters
1) go to
http://javascript.internet.com/
you will see a box listing catagories for javascript scripts

2) On the right click on user-details.

3) Go down the list a bit and you will see about 3 scripts doing just
what you want.

Finally as already mentioned use this info to create an image link to a cgi
script with the info on it like so:-

document.write "<img
src=\"http://yoursite.com/yourdir/cgiscript.cgi?"+plugin1+" "+plugin2+"\"
height=1 width=1>"

where plugin1 etc are variables created by your javascript.

.Then the cgi script can look at that info and respond (remember to send a
1pixel transparent image back to the script)

to view these details with a cgi script running on the server would look
something like this:-

#!/usr/bin/perl

if ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}) {
 $qstring = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
#extract your info from the string here

}else {        #No pluggins found

}

Hope this helps.
Peter Newton

> Hello all,
>
> A company I'm working with is thinking about creating some animations
> to display how their products work.  We have a number of choices
> for the target format - QuickTime, Flash, etc., etc.
>
> What I'd like to do is try to avoid having the users download
> YET ANOTHER PLUGIN - so, I'd like to try to find out what they've
> got so we can use that information in our decision.  Does anyone
> know how to get Apache on Cobalt Linux to log the plugins a user
> has?
>
> Suggestions for alternative approaches are welcome.  TIA ...
>
>
>
>

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