Craig Spooner wrote:
>
> Andu wrote:
>
> >Craig Spooner wrote:
> >>
> >> I would like to write a little app in MC that sends commands to the
> >> server in the same way that I do currently in telnet from the command
> >> line. If this is possible, would the app have to be running on the
> >> server or could it be a stack or standalone on my desktop
> >> communicating with the server (I would prefer the latter, if
> >> possible)? Would this involve the "open socket command"? Please
> >> forgive my profound ignorance on this subject :-[ but if someone
> >> could point me in the right direction, I would be grateful.
> >
> >What kind of commands? What do you want the server to do? What OS is the
> >server? Theoretically you could but there may be some security issues
> >(we just talked about it a while ago vis a vis cgi scripts) such as
> >metacard not being able to do stuff remotely if it's not started by a
> >user with proper permissions.
>
> The commands I'd like to execute refer to scripts built into WebCT,
> which is my university's e-learning platform. Our configuration of
> WebCT runs on an Apache server on AIX. Here's an example of a
> command I currently use from telnet to change the owner of a course:
>
> ./change_designer.pl courseID newDesignerID
>
> I have to cd to the appropriate directory before issuing this
> command, of course, but I was hoping that I could specify the path --
> along with the courseID and newDesignerID -- as variables in my
> MetaCard app.
>
> I guess my MC application would have to open the connection to the
> server with the correct user name and password, then cd to the
> appropriate directory, then send the command to the Perl script.
> Does this sound like something that's feasible in MC? I really hope
> so.
The only way to do that is your mc app to emulate a telnet client
(telnet protocol) so that you can get a session with the server and send
your commands. I really don't see any advantage to using mc for that as
opposed to a telnet client. There was a telnet stack floating around if
you insist though, I might have it somewhere.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Craig
> --
Andu
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