[Klug-general] Indentifing Local machines on website

[Dan Attwood]

Thanks for all your suggestions.

I'm going down the cookie route. I'm creating a screen that lets you pick
the site and the terminal number and then having that set a non expiring
cookie on the machine. I think this is the lesser of several evils.

Dan



On 2 June 2015 at 08:50, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:

>  Are the IP's static?  If they are dynamically allocated it won't help
> much,
>
>
> On 01/06/15 21:39, Dan Attwood wrote:
>
> how can I get the IP of the device?
> Everything I've tried either gets the IP of the web server or the public
> IP of the whole site
>
>
> On 1 June 2015 at 21:36, Karl Buckland <buckland.karl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nothing is going to be full proof. Can you not get your site to set a
>> cookie on each terminal and use that for I'd?  Or could you use the IPs of
>> each device?
>>
>> Karl
>>  On 1 Jun 2015 9:30 pm, "Dan Attwood" <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  I've got 3 student information terminals. They are in one pcs that
>>> have card scanner attached to them and run windows.
>>> They run chrome which has a website. When a student scans their card
>>> some jquery passes of to php via ajax shows them their print, timetables
>>> etc.
>>> What i'd like to be able to is to log which terminals have been scanned
>>> though.
>>>
>>>  I've tried to do this by calling a local file on each terminal but
>>> chrome blocks calling files from the c:\ drive.
>>> I could use a different url for each terminal, '?terminal=number1' etc,
>>> but this would policies to ensure each terminal called the right url and
>>> also the page has a refresh built in and I'm concerned that this might
>>> cause an issue.
>>>
>>>  Can anyone think of better for this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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