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Accessing registry values

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Posted By: Mario_Vargas
Posted On: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:40 AM

I have a web page in which I want to know if the client has the Acrobart Reader installed locally (in the client's machine). So I don't know if I can access Registry Values through javascript or if there is another way to know if Acrobat Reader is installed locally.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Accessing registry values

Posted By: Nitesh_Naveen
Posted On: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 03:13 AM

navigator.mimeTypes["application/pdf"].enabledPlugin

will give you null if teh client machine has no pdf readers configuered. The PDF reader need not be Acrobat Reade. you can probably try a code like this...


mimetype = navigator.mimeTypes["Application/PDF"]
if (mimetype) {
   plugin = mimetype.enabledPlugin
   if (plugin)
      document.writeln("")
   else
      document.writeln("Click here to read the doc.")
   } 
else {
   document.writeln("Sorry, can't show you this doc.")
}

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Re: Accessing registry values

Posted By: Christopher_Koenigsberg
Posted On: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:42 AM

Wouldn't that be wonderful, to have random Web pages with javascript on them that could dig around in the registry in the local OS....

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