Auto Launch Programe?

[Fico]

I want to autoexecute putty on a client computer through a http request. How do I do this? Have have no experince in CGI or Perl so anything that could be helpfull to get me to get the script to work. If not i can look it up no biggy

[mlseim]

I'm not sure what "putty" is ...

If you have SSI and your webhost allows CGI EXECUTE,
you can do it that way. The other alternative is
using an image and Javascript to execute a Perl script
each time the webpage is displayed. Javascript of
course can be turned off, but most people have it
enabled.

[Fico]

Well I am running my own server. I have no idea what your talking about with SSI. How would I do it either way?

[mlseim]

... and to clarify,
You want a Perl script to run when someone views a webpage?

[Fico]

When someone goes to the site I want putty.exe to run on the computer of the user.

[mlseim]

You cannot force a program to run on someone's computer from
a website, or a server-side script.

You would need to actually have the person download and install
a program that you create. That program would run in the background
at all times and execute when it sees something on your site.

This is exactly what a "spyware" program does. A spyware .exe file
runs in the background on your computer. It gets there because
someone downloaded it (although they were not aware of it).

You could have them download and execute putty.exe on their PC.
Within THAT program, it sits and waits until it gets the "permission"
to do something when it sees something on your website. The
program putty.exe of course would have to be programmed to do that.
The user would have to be willing to let it run in the background.

If your user's PCs and the website and everything is on an "intra-net",
or local server, you might have a little bit more power there. That would
involve having an administrator set-up something on each PC.

[Fico]

Could I somehow build putty into a webpage?

[andyede]

You cna make it downloadable. Would you be able to do something with active-X? but out of my envelope

[mlseim]

Is this what Putty is all about?
http://www.google.com/search?q=putty.exe&btnG=Search

I'm not really sure.

Active-X is not my expertise either.
I'm guessing most people, like myself, try to shut off
anything to do with Active-X ... it has spyware written
all over it. In fact, I'm going away from Internet Explorer...period.

[Fico]

Well PuTTy is a client for SSH, and other type of connections. That first link is in fact what im talking about

[mlseim]

I'm by no means an expert on this topic, but look at this link:
http://dev.panopticsearch.com/helper-app.html

Maybe you can take this idea and find some help on another
forum within CodingForums.