Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:23:51 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: making users modem dial from webpage Message-ID: <199911162323.XAA04673@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> of "Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:34:58 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911162326560.95543-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
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> 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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