> I've been asked if this is possible:
>
> Having a webserver running a database of some sort.
> User clicks a button on a form, a cgi-script runs, determines the ip of
> the user, and sends a command to "something" on the users pc, which then
> sends commands to a modem, making it dial a number.
>
> So our salespeople can dial directly from the database.
>
> This "something", could this be a java-applet, or should it be an
> active-x? Or something completely different?
It could be a pppctl(8) command.
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