| Jerry West 2004-03-31, 12:30 am |
| I need to create to a web page for our customers. The web page allows the
customer to select a button that will then download some code to their
system. The code then scans their computer for data such as OS, version,
build #, and software installed. Basically, reading data from the registry.
When the scan is complete the code then sends this data across the wire back
to our server where it is then displayed to the user on a web page. In
essence, the whole system needs to work very similarly to MS's Windows
Update site except that our web page will display the results in a fashion
that allows the user to sort it and do some other basic things like search
through the results. The system needs to support all Windows OSs and work
with all major browsers. I know MS uses an ActiveX control and JavaScript?
to accomplish this. I'd prefer to make this as simple and basic as possible.
I was thinking of creating a simple VB6 exe that the user downloads. The EXE
would have the capability to send the scan data, after encrypting it, back
to the server via the Wininet API. Is this line of thinking faulty? Why
would one use ActiveX over creating a simple exe file? Security reasons?
JW
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