From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 16 17:45: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-112.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726ED14E3C for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:44:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA36430; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:19:30 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA04673; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:23:52 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199911162323.XAA04673@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Leif Neland Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: making users modem dial from webpage In-Reply-To: Message from Leif Neland of "Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:34:58 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:23:51 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. [.....] -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message