Does anyone know how to use JavaScript [1] to invoke an application in a computer and [2] to transfer a file to a specified disk location? For example, when user click on a photo in my website, the photo will be downloaded and saved into location D:My Photo
@AlvinwindauthorFeb 06.2005 — #Hi A1ien51, do you have any reference or example so that I can start work on the ActiveX. I really have no idea about ActiveX.
@the_treeFeb 06.2005 — #Although I probably could find something on activeX pretty quickly, I'm not going to, it's not something I'll ever use or that I think anyone should use.
@nusenseFeb 06.2005 — #[i]Originally posted by MstrBob [/i]
[B][font=trebuchet ms][COLOR=royalblue](1) ActiveX is only Internet Explorer, meaning this will only work on Internet Explorer. [/COLOR][/FONT][/B][/QUOTE] Funny, I just tried an ActiveX control and ran it through firefox, so that blows that one outtta the window. lol
@MstrBobFeb 06.2005 — #[font=trebuchet ms][COLOR=royalblue][i]Originally posted by nusense [/i]
[B]Funny, I just tried an ActiveX control and ran it through firefox, so that blows that one outtta the window. lol [/B][/QUOTE]
Have you installed ActiveX for Firefox? Because as far as I know, Mozilla doesn't natively support it, unless that has changed recently.[/COLOR][/font]
@JPnycFeb 07.2005 — #I'd heard mozilla was working on activeX support, but I hadn't heard that they'd implemented it. Doesn't make any sense, since 90% of IE's holes are courtesy of it.
I know that users might not be happy if we try to access their computer. But have you tried "The Webshot Desktop" from www.webshot.com before? When I try to download wallpaper from webshot, the selected wallpaper will be save into a predefined location in my harddisk and run the Webshot Desktop application as well.
What I am going to do is somethings similar to the one provided by webshot. In my opinion, they might be using JavaScript.
@nusenseFeb 07.2005 — #[i]Originally posted by JPnyc [/i]
[B]I'd heard mozilla was working on activeX support, but I hadn't heard that they'd implemented it. Doesn't make any sense, since 90% of IE's holes are courtesy of it. [/B][/QUOTE]
Thats a popular misconception, active X is used by allot of software, one that immediately springs to mind ia Start up Mechanic, it has occasional errors that are thrown because it cant create an ActiveX component, that ususally happens when spyware is running on the PC which can arrive by any browser I Might Add, not just IE.
IE gets a bad rap all the time when its actually one of the only browsers that you can to almost 100% assured that the user has IE on their computer and having used other browsers, I stick with IE because it TBH I have found throws up the and presents the least issues IN my experiance.
Theirs plenty of ways of downloading files without Axctive X thats just a fraught with danger like in XML, you can download a file like a txt file (which could just as easily be a payload) and an explot deployed in that manner. Its not just Active X thats dangerous, theirs a whole host of programming languages like 'C' & 'c++', Python, Perl, PHP etc, with the latter being able to deliver a seemingly innocent site but just as easily riddled with spyware and exploits, C & Java & Python and Perl can be abused and run on a local machine if the user has the perl software installed and exploited in that manner.
People are too blinkered to the myths and ethos that surrounds IE to realize that the exploits are just as easily achieved by any browser as long as the right envionment exists on the surfers machine.
It is not soley an IE thing, it effects all browsers.