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On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:38, Nath, Alok (STSD) wrote: > What I want to provide is a page with some machine Id's. > So once somebody clicks the hyperlinks , it should remote > desktop instead of telnet. > > Is it not possible ? It is not possible with perl (AFAIK), since running a program in a CGI script will run the program on the *server*, and not on the users client machine. The reason it works with telnet is that most (all?) web clients have pre defined that all urls starting with telnet:// should start a telnet session on the client machine. There is a possibility to do something like rdesktop://<ip>, only that no web browser is set up to handle this and it will result in an error. I suggest you try looking into java or activeX web based clients to remote desktop; google for "web client remote desktop". -- bs > The current script is triggering a telnet session.The same way > it cannot do that ??? > > Just clarifying.. > ~Alok > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tom Phoenix > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 9:15 PM > To: Nath, Alok (STSD) > Cc: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Re: Want to start remote desktop thru the CGI script > > On 7/4/06, Nath, Alok (STSD) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I want is when I click the hyperlink it should run the command > > 'mstsc IP Address'(instead of telnet) so that I can remote > > desktop to that machine. > > So, you want to run a program on the computer at the browser's end of > the connection, not the server's? > > Browsers shouldn't be able to run arbitrary external programs without > manual intervention, so when I want to run a program at the browser's > end of the connection, I ask somebody at that end of the connection to > run the program. > > Hope this helps! > > --Tom Phoenix > Stonehenge Perl Training -- Bjørge Solli - Office:+47 55205847 Mohn-Sverdrupsenteret, Nansensenteret, Høyteknologisenteret T47 Thormöhlensgate 47, 5006 Bergen, Norway - www.nersc.no Google Earth: www.nersc.no/GE - TOPAZ: topaz.nersc.no -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
