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RE: [xsl] Running unix commands (remotely on a server) from a windows webbrowser.


Subject: RE: [xsl] Running unix commands (remotely on a server) from a windows webbrowser.
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:09:39 +0100

> What I do not know is how to write code to establish a connection to
> the unix machine and invoke the program to generate the image and
> display it back on the web browser. Hope my problem is clear. Thanks.
> 

You put a web server on the UNIX machine that can run CGI scripts (or Java
servlets if you want to be fashionable), and then you generate the HTML to
contain URLs in the form of calls to those CGI scripts.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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