At 05:40 PM 11/17/99 +0300, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote:
>Kelly Yancey writes:
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Leif Neland wrote:
> > > 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.
If they are dialed into an ISP how are they going to be able to dial
otherwise? Or is this for internal use only?
> > >
> > > 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?
you could do it with active X, but that limits your platform
> >
> > I think that the security settings in most browsers would prevent an
> > object embedded in a page (such as a java applet or activeX control) from
> > this amount of system access. Just think of the implications otherwise:
> > maliscious people could put applets/activeX controls on a web page which
> > racked up long distance charges to some eastern European country.
This can be configured.
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