Executing Application within ASP Code
"Deyeme" wrote ...
Quote:
> Yes it does make sense, because those same programs can be run off the
> command line, such as "sndrec32.exe -play -close c:\test\testwave.wav"
Yes, but then they're running as a "normal" user with a visible desktop -
since any code which executes from ASP runs in the context of the
IUSR_MACHINE user, without an interactive desktop, running any code which
requires interactivity or a GUI on the server-side *doesn't* make sense...
Quote:
> This would allow alerting the administrator to a client-side user input,
> error, etc. In my case, I'd like to shell out a specific dos-based
compiled
> program or .BAT. I'm getting the same problem. It seems to be "there"
but
> not there.
There's a vast difference between running a batch file, WSH script, etc.
that performs tasks such as file maintainance with no visible output on the
server-side and trying to run something like Notepad or Sound Recorder - in
any case, most administrators don't sit and watch the desktops of their web
servers waiting for a response to client-side input; a) they have far better
things to do and b) that's not how client-server technology works (and as
noted above, and by MH previously, it's non-sensical in this context)
hth hand
Adam
