How to get uuid or mac address from client in Java?

问题

I'm looking for a solution for a Java based webapplication to uniquely identify the client. The server is in the same network as the clients and I thought that using the MAC address would be a good solution. The problem is I can't work with cookies because they can be deleted client-side and I can't use the IP because they could just issue a new DHCP lease renewal.

So I would like to fallback to the MAC address of the clients. I'm aware that there is no java built in feature to get the MAC address. Is there a library that can handle the output of every OS? (primary Windows and Mac) since my java Application runs on both platforms.

or are there any other suggestions for uniquely identifying a client within a website and the HTTP Protocol ? (maybe HTML5 data stores or something else)

I'm using Java 1.7 btw.

I won't force the user to login or otherwise identify himself and I won't program a native app for the clients smartphone.

回答1:

I wrote my own method to solve my issue. Here it is if ever someone needs code to find a MAC address in the same network. Works for me without any admin privileges on Win 7 and Mac OS X 10.8.2

Pattern macpt = null;

private String getMac(String ip) {

    // Find OS and set command according to OS
    String OS = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();

    String[] cmd;
    if (OS.contains("win")) {
        // Windows
        macpt = Pattern
                .compile("[0-9a-f]+-[0-9a-f]+-[0-9a-f]+-[0-9a-f]+-[0-9a-f]+-[0-9a-f]+");
        String[] a = { "arp", "-a", ip };
        cmd = a;
    } else {
        // Mac OS X, Linux
        macpt = Pattern
                .compile("[0-9a-f]+:[0-9a-f]+:[0-9a-f]+:[0-9a-f]+:[0-9a-f]+:[0-9a-f]+");
        String[] a = { "arp", ip };
        cmd = a;
    }

    try {
        // Run command
        Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
        p.waitFor();
        // read output with BufferedReader
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                p.getInputStream()));
        String line = reader.readLine();

        // Loop trough lines
        while (line != null) {
            Matcher m = macpt.matcher(line);

            // when Matcher finds a Line then return it as result
            if (m.find()) {
                System.out.println("Found");
                System.out.println("MAC: " + m.group(0));
                return m.group(0);
            }

            line = reader.readLine();
        }

    } catch (IOException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    // Return empty string if no MAC is found
    return "";
}

回答2:

The best I could find is this: Query ARP cache to get MAC ID

And the potted summary is that:

there is no standard Java API,
there is no operating system independent solution,
your application typically needs to be privileged (e.g. root access) to query the host's ARP cache, and
if the packets go through a network router, you won't be able to identify the source MAC address anymore.

I don't think this is a good approach for identifying your user's machine.

Consider also that:

This only identifies the machine, not the user. Some computers are shared by multiple users.
MAC addresses can be changed too.

回答3:

Usage of IP address isn't working in the local network. I have used some other method to get a MAC address - sysout parsing of useful commands.

public String getMacAddress() throws Exception {
    String macAddress = null;
    String command = "ifconfig";

    String osName = System.getProperty("os.name");
    System.out.println("Operating System is " + osName);

    if (osName.startsWith("Windows")) {
        command = "ipconfig /all";
    } else if (osName.startsWith("Linux") || osName.startsWith("Mac") || osName.startsWith("HP-UX")
            || osName.startsWith("NeXTStep") || osName.startsWith("Solaris") || osName.startsWith("SunOS")
            || osName.startsWith("FreeBSD") || osName.startsWith("NetBSD")) {
        command = "ifconfig -a";
    } else if (osName.startsWith("OpenBSD")) {
        command = "netstat -in";
    } else if (osName.startsWith("IRIX") || osName.startsWith("AIX") || osName.startsWith("Tru64")) {
        command = "netstat -ia";
    } else if (osName.startsWith("Caldera") || osName.startsWith("UnixWare") || osName.startsWith("OpenUNIX")) {
        command = "ndstat";
    } else {// Note: Unsupported system.
        throw new Exception("The current operating system '" + osName + "' is not supported.");
    }

    Process pid = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pid.getInputStream()));
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("([\\w]{1,2}(-|:)){5}[\\w]{1,2}");
    while (true) {
        String line = in.readLine();
        System.out.println("line " + line);
        if (line == null)
            break;

        Matcher m = p.matcher(line);
        if (m.find()) {
            macAddress = m.group();
            break;
        }
    }
    in.close();
    return macAddress;
}

This should work everywhere. At least, the usage of this method on Ubuntu machine gives the following result:

Operating System is Linux
line eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr f4:6d:04:63:8e:21  
mac: f4:6d:04:63:8e:21

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14830336/how-to-get-uuid-or-mac-address-from-client-in-java

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