Does HWID block a PHP page?

Question

I am currently selling a program that accesses my web page. The HWID (Hard Ware ID) program is blocked, and the only reason I use the program to access a web page instead of directly accessing through a web browser is that I can use HWID authentication.

However, they told me that I can simply code the script to get information about the computer, such as hardware identifier, etc.

Is this really possible completely on the server side? If so, can I do this using PHP? If not, what language will it be and what functions should I learn?

Answer 1

The one who told you that he was confused with something else.

Browsers do not provide such hardware information on a web server at any time, so there is no existing mechanism for a server-side PHP script to get an HWID visitor. JavaScript provides very limited information about screen resolution and color depth, but, of course, not something like HWID. It has long been possible to use ActiveX objects in JavaScript in IE to retrieve hardware information through WMI, but you can bet that this is not possible, especially on a zone site without an intranet. You will probably need some kind of plug-in or browser extension; Flash does not provide an HWID, so you are looking at something you wrote that must be installed on the visitor’s machine before or during their visit.

You are better off continuing to sell an application that receives the HWID itself and then accesses your website because it will be much less painful than writing browser extensions and plugins for all major browsers to provide this information in a safe way.