Executing a command on the local system
in [JavaScript]
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From: Bwig Zomberi on 12 Apr 2010 00:33 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Blah blah blah I started with DOS. You probably started with the Von Neumann machine. Come up something like VK did. It was truly enlightening. If not, I will have to ignore your bluff. If you can do that, then stick to yelling at newcomers about quoting, validating, etc. -- Bwig Zomberi
From: Bwig Zomberi on 12 Apr 2010 02:27 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > [snipped] Dave's ingenious solution solves Swifty's problem. I am still waiting for your Firefox solution, if you have any. -- Bwig Zomberi
From: Swifty on 12 Apr 2010 06:25 On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:47:49 -0700 (PDT), Jorge <jorge(a)jorgechamorro.com> wrote: >In the Macs, and I guess in any other *nix OS, apps can register their >own custom url scheme handlers so that, from the browser, I can >command e.g. TextMate (my text editor) to open a file with this url: >"txmt://open/?url=file://path/to/file/file.txt", or see man page with >"man:ls". This was the perfect solution for me. It was easy enough to implement an "edit:" protocol in my browser, and change all references to files in my webpages to <A HREF="edit:filename>filename</A>. Thanks, Jorge! So I've now drifted completely off topic, as usual. -- Steve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html http://www.ringers.org.uk
From: Øyvind Sean Kinsey on 12 Apr 2010 07:01 On 12.04.2010 12:25, Swifty wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:47:49 -0700 (PDT), Jorge > <jorge(a)jorgechamorro.com> wrote: > >> In the Macs, and I guess in any other *nix OS, apps can register their >> own custom url scheme handlers so that, from the browser, I can >> command e.g. TextMate (my text editor) to open a file with this url: >> "txmt://open/?url=file://path/to/file/file.txt", or see man page with >> "man:ls". > > This was the perfect solution for me. It was easy enough to implement > an "edit:" protocol in my browser, and change all references to files > in my webpages to<A HREF="edit:filename>filename</A>. > > Thanks, Jorge! > > So I've now drifted completely off topic, as usual. > Hm, I guess you didn't see my reply at 04/07? In comp.lang.javascript message <c9d2db5a-595a-4f7d-b400-848abcf8d1c2(a)a38g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> on 07.04.2010 13:31, Sean Kinsey wrote: > On Apr 7, 10:45 am, Swifty<steve.j.sw...(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >> > If it helps, I could easily create a CGI script to run under apache on >> > my local system, and that could be used as the mechanism that actually >> > issues the host command. So the JavaScript running on my local PC >> > could issue some sort of httprequest to my local apache to cause the >> > editor to launch. >> > >> > -- >> > Steve Swifthttp://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.htmlhttp://www.ringers.org.uk > I guess you could register a custom protocol handler for this, e.g. > checkout:, and then you could just set the location to checkout://L:\path....
From: Jorge on 12 Apr 2010 07:17
On Apr 12, 12:25 pm, Swifty <steve.j.sw...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:47:49 -0700 (PDT), Jorge > <jo...(a)jorgechamorro.com> wrote: > >In the Macs, and I guess in any other *nix OS, apps can register their > >own custom url scheme handlers so that, from the browser, I can > >command e.g. TextMate (my text editor) to open a file with this url: > >"txmt://open/?url=file://path/to/file/file.txt", or see man page with > >"man:ls". > > This was the perfect solution for me. It was easy enough to implement > an "edit:" protocol in my browser, and change all references to files > in my webpages to <A HREF="edit:filename>filename</A>. I'm glad to know. And most likely Sean Kinsey and Dave too, as they proposed exactly the same solution... :-) > Thanks, Jorge! You're welcome. -- Jorge. |