From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 17 9:51: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cx47987-b.escnd1.sdca.home.com (cx47987-b.escnd1.sdca.home.com [24.0.175.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B7015267 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:50:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lomion@cx47987-b.escnd1.sdca.home.com) Received: from cx47987-c (cx47987-c.escnd1.sdca.home.com [24.0.175.251]) by cx47987-b.escnd1.sdca.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA55770 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lomion@cx47987-b.escnd1.sdca.home.com) Message-Id: <4.2.2.19991117095040.00ba9f00@mail.anais-nin.org> X-Sender: lomion@mail.anais-nin.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:52:40 -0800 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: lomion Subject: Re: making users modem dial from webpage In-Reply-To: <199911171440.RAA18760@aaz.links.ru> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message