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Asked: 2026-05-23T05:58:05+00:00

I have an intranet app that needs to know where to print some labels.

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I have an intranet app that needs to know where to print some labels. We have multiple workstations setup. I need a way to retrieve the host name of the client so that when they print something it comes out of the correct printer. Right now I have this being set at login but was curious if I could actually pull the host name on the client side, then on the server side i could easily parse the hostname to set the printer. The solves the problem of a user being logged into two workstations at once. Granted it shouldn’t happen but users will be users.

The application is printing labels to a zebra printer so the printing occurs on the server but the print job is sent to the label printer that is next to the workstation being used.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since the printing is done server-side, why do you need a JavaScript solution?

    What you need is to check whatever is the equivalent to the REMOTE_HOST and/or REMOTE_ADDR CGI variables on your server’s implementation.

    Edit: in case you can’t change the printing code, reverting to a separate script called through AJAX, as Andrew suggested, may be a way of getting what you want. But it looks like a very circuitous way of doing it.

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