"Johnson, Nicole" wrote: > > Hello - > > >From that point what I am trying to accomplish is: > > -> web page has another form-like button to launch a remote control > program -> user clicks button -> perl runs cgi-like with the pc name > variable then goes to exec the Win32 cmd line to launch the remote control > program, appending the machine name to the command. > > I don't want another web page generated, and the remote control program > resides on the user's pc. I've already tried Win32::Process, exec, and a > non-perl html link to the executible but none have produced the desired > results. Has anyone else done something like this successfully?
If I understand you correctly, you want to run a RC program on the web server to control the user's machine? If so, this should be possible (or maybe even simple) _if_ the RC program on the user's machine is running as the RC server, the RC program on the web server is set up as a client, and the RC program itself has the capability to be set up so you can feed it a script through OLE or another method on the web server (RC client). Turned around enough, already? So, it boils down to the capabilities and the interface of your RC program. I seem to remember pcAnywhere had a scripting capability (although I never used it, myself), it doesn't look like Timbuktu does, and I don't believe VNC does, either. Other RC programs, I have not used. The HTTP protocol was never intended to let a server take control of a client, this would make the hacker attacks we see now look like Kindergarten mischief. So you have to have a real RC program on both machines to do it. Cameron -- Cameron Dorey Associate Professor of Chemistry University of Central Arkansas Phone: 501-450-5938 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
