And I mentioned this in just the other email I sent off.  He already has the
program to install the printer, he just needs a way to start the
installation.  PHP-GTK does not offer him anything in that regard.

As for the VBSCRIPT print job, you can do it, but it pops up a print dialog
box if I recall correctly.  All the person has to do is say "Cancel".

But that is sort of the point I was trying to make.  Do you really want
something like a web page being able to run client side programs?  Could you
imagine clicking on a site and having 100 porn images print out? ... On
second thought...

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nikolai Devereaux" <yomama@u...>
To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: [pro_php] Re: Executing an external file


> Heh, Adam, I was agreeing with you...  I meant that it made no sense in
the
> webserver context, BUT if you used php as a scripting etc. etc. etc.
>
> still though, that'd be kind of funny to have some sort of website that
when
> connected to, has some sort of vbscript or javascript enable windows
> filesharing and share your printer and then proceed to spam you with
printed
> advertisements.
>
> Reminiscent of all the fax spamming that was extremely popular in the 80's
> and 90's before there were strict laws about preventing that kind of stuff
> from happening unsolicited.