OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria to Java

• Posted by Matthew Lewis <MatthewL at KAPCOUSA.COM> Dec 18, 2000
• 494 views

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John

> I want to launch an application from the HTML ,browser window, but
> something is fighting me.. I can click a link and bam it pop
> ups and runs.
> I just can't figure how to get the code to do that ..
>  I tried to call a batch file (with a euphoria thingie "ex prog.ex")
> and it gives me the download box ("run virus now or save for
> later?"),which
> defeats the whole purpose ...
> also everything about HTML is "transient" and getting any
> data to save to
> file is really hard...
> maybe I am doing this backwards and I should be calling HTMLs
> from euthoria
> so they can "show" their data and then close.  But how would
> I past data to
> the HTML?

What you're looking to do is something like cgi (server side scripting).
There have been some contributions on this (the most notable, IIRC, from Irv
Mullins).  Search the archives for CGI.  Some things you should know:

You'll need a web server that will allow you cgi, and will allow you to run
executables.  You'll need to be running your own server (PWS--comes with
Win9X, IIS--comes with WinNT/2000, Apache, etc) or else pay to have this
functionality.

If you'd like a free site to do server side scripting, your best bet may be
using MS Active Server Pages (ASP).  There are several sites that will offer
this.  The scripting is typically done in VB Script, although you can also
use javascript.

Matt Lewis