Following is the scenario:
I have an web application accessible via mobile browser.
I need to detect a mobile device IMEI and sim IMSI whenever an user
clicks on link in my app page accessible via web browser. This is to
track the same device with same SIM and provide him/her next level of
access. User cannot be tracked using loginid as there is no user login
kind of option in my page.
The question is how to get unique device id/sim id via mobile browser
for a specific mobile device.
For now I am focusing on android based mobile devices. But the target
is to make it generic to devices.
Focus of most of the ideas is, what is the kind of access a browser
has over the phone and its app?
1. From a browser link we can open a local app in the following way:
<a href="productcateory://<productid>/<customerid>">Get Details</
a>
here productcateory will uniquely identify a local app and invoke it.
But its one way communication. How to get back some response from the
point of invocation and populate some hidden form field dynamically.
2. Via webpage scripts we can store some data locally at client
machine and retrieve it later. but the scope is limited and it is no
way connected to IMEI or IMSI number.
3. Is there a way to get a hook to mobile browser app(remember it's
like any other mobile application) from the webpage and get the id
details via scripts in my page?
4. Is there any option that html5 provides in this regard? I know
there is a localstorage tag in HTML5 and one can store an id in the
client location and retrieve it later. But this is limited to the same
device and same mobile browser and also this is a different solution
to get the imei/imsi number
Let me know if there is any other option without asking user to
installing a local app or browser plugin on the device?
~inkriti
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