Access registry from a web application

Is it possible to acce开发者_开发技巧ss to the registry from a web application?

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It is completely impossible to access the end-users registry, unless you use an IE-only ActiveX control. (and there is (almost) no better way to make your users hate you than to use an ActiveX control)

If you're trying to check your end-users' home pages, you should give up; it's completely impossible.

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After reading you comment to @SLaks I'm inclined to point out that there are server tools that are there to do exactly that.

In fact I think Windows Server editions come with these features out of the box.

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The registry, as in the Windows registry? It might be possible with Internet Explorer 6, but I don't think so. There's no possible (good) reason to access the registry on a website, you just don't want that!

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If you mean the client's, then no. (It might be with some ActiveX controls, but I am not sure on that)

Why do you need to be accessing the registry from a webapp anyway?

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You can't access the client's registry no, you could access the registry on the server but that would be a fairly iffy thing todo in a web app.