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    then what about all the google search result providing sample codes to get MAC Address Commented Dec 26, 2010 at 2:53
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    I've had a quick look around Google and all of the pages I read were IE only solution which relied on using ActiveX objects. If you could post a link showing otherwise... Commented Jan 12, 2011 at 16:52
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    I really don't think being a "high level language" has anything to do with MAC addresses, since any server-side programming language allows you do get access the ARP table, even indirectly (e.g. through a subprocess). I think "client-side language" would work better... Commented Oct 6, 2016 at 19:51
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    There is no reason why an high level language wouldn't have access to low level hardware information. In this case this doesn't happen because it would be a security problem. Commented May 7, 2017 at 9:37