Sparky Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 I'm needing a server component (ASP/ASP.net) similar to BrowserHawk. Are there any alternatives out there that provide the same functionality? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted February 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 That appears to be a no, then Looks like I'll be buying BH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_B Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Probably should. BH is the only one I've ever used (long time ago). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted February 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Yeah, making the $500 purchase tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 Sparky, you can write a lot of the features of BrowserHawk into your code (ASP or ASP.NET). We looked at BH a while ago and trialed it for one of our customers. The single biggest problem is that it results in all the hits being distorted, as it reloads the page once it's figured out what the attributes are of the client's browser, so you get double the page hits, hence double the page traffic. Depending on how your pages are written, you may or may not be forcing the images to reload. What info are you trying to get from the client browser - may be able to provide you with some sample code from one of our developers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted February 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 A lot of our sites are still in ASP (being re-written), but some are to stay in .asp for now. We're wanting to get Screen Res/Available Width/Height which I know you can do in Javascript, I an also obtain details such as the OS from within ASP but it was more a case of wrapping it up into one script/object. We tend to need the following: Operating System Browser Version Flash Version Javascript version Screen size (or available size) Page Load times There are probably more but I can't remember. I know a mix of ASP/Javascript can obtain most of these but I really wanted was an include file that was called and logged that data to a DB. BH just seemed quick and easy to install. Didn't realise it distorted all the stats and causes redirection. That's somewhat annoying. Cheers for the advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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