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Re: Linking PC network resources thru HTML

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Fitch)
Fri Jan 27 02:30:44 1995

Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:05:33 +0100
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From: Kent Fitch <Kent.Fitch@its.csiro.au>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>

What about running a PC based WWW server and providing the required 
access from CGI scripts running on that server?  See 
http://www.alisa.com/win-httpd/ for info on the Alisa WWW server, which 
is one of several for Windows - it includes a great CGI interface which 
makes it easy to write programs (especially in Visual Basic) which ferret 
around your PC environment/network to return information via HTTP

Kent Fitch                           Ph: +61 6 276 6711
ITSB   CSIRO  Canberra  Australia    kent.fitch@its.csiro.au
"Victors are by their victories, undone"	- Dryden

On Thu, 26 Jan 1995, HAMOS howard amos wrote:

> 
> I'm working on linking some PC network resources through HTML links and
> would like to know the best way to go about referencing these network
> drives.
> 
> What I thought of doing was writing a DOS batch file to neatly access the
> resource, but I need some way of getting my Web browser to understand that
> the appropriate link is not going to a text document but should execute a
> program/batch file instead. At the most basic level, I need to shell out
> from my browser to DOS (I'm using Netscape for Windows).
> 
> Is this just a fanciful idea that really should be implemented, or is there
> anyway to do this sort of thing?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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