Tracking a user

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by saurabhk, Jul 6, 2007.

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    Is there any method to track a website visitor based on his system hardware ? (and not ip).
     
    saurabhk, Jul 6, 2007 IP
  2. Sepehr

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    i doubt! you can get the OS and browser info but hardware? i don't think so
    why do you need it anyway?
     
    Sepehr, Jul 6, 2007 IP
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    You would normally track them by session or alternatively by setting a cookie to track them which will work over different sessions
     
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    as a user can use different ip`s to visit a website so i thought tracking the hardware could be effective

    Thanks for replying
     
    saurabhk, Jul 12, 2007 IP
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    I'd agree that cookies are your best bet. Easiest way to simply identify a single machine.
     
    jawanda, Jul 12, 2007 IP