Access Hardware Information from Web Browser

Question

I am interested in creating a website that needs to know as much specific hardware (ie computer model, cpu model, RAM size, etc) as possible.

Are you aware of any method to find out this information?

I know about ActiveX controls, however I'd prefer to use a more flexible method. Javascript? Asp.NET? Flash? Java? Silverlight?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Javascript : Impossible;

.Net/Silverlight (If you develop a non-based web browser app) : http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/dpatra/system-information-from-registry-in-silverlight-4/

Java (vi a java applet): get OS-level system information.

ActionScript/Flash : I don't think you can get all the information you are looking for, but you can get the free available memory (documentation).

EDIT : Here is more information about the system information you can get through an applet. For a RIA application, there are more functionnalities listed here. I found a very good SO post that could be very useful.

To get the machine name, the easiest (only?) way to do so is to take it from the ip. So, a server language is needed here.