I have a Windows executable, XAMPP, and ngrok. On the receiving end of my makeshift server, I would like my client(s) to be able to click a link that would open the before mentioned executable on my side, and stream the image to my user(s).
I would like if some user input could get through, as arrow keys & space bar, and I'm willing to do this by whatever means possible. Thank you!
You could look into CGI which provides a way for a webserver to interact with an executable via standard input and output. There is also a stack overflow answer detailing what CGI is. For user input, the CGI can pass data both ways, so it should be capable of what you are trying to achieve.
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I am pretty new to IT Administration and I think I have a pretty complicated request but I want to know if it is even possible through Intune. I have an application that I want to deploy and I think I would either need to package the application as a Win32 app or via a Powershell Script. I basically would need to download the zip from this website, extract the contents, open the WCX, silently pass through the prompts, and pin the app to the taskbar. Again I am not sure if this is even possible but this would save me a lot of trouble if there was an easy way to do this. Here is the link.
https://kb.tempworks.com/help/how-to-add-an-enterprise-shortcut-to-the-desktop
To download a file, use Invoke-WebRequest with the -OutFile parameter.
To Install a .wcx you use rundll like this:
rundll32.exe 'tsworkspace,WorkspaceSilentSetup' C:\Path\To\The.wcx
(There's a whole wrapper script for that on the old technet script gallery)
It's impossible by design to pin things to users' task bar or start menu programmatically (well, you could script a bunch of hotkey presses and clicks, but don't).
I have two CGI servers running. One one windows and one on Ubuntu. Now I need to go from page of one server to page of another server and pass some information using method 'post'. And the files(under cgi-bin/) of both server are executable. I tried to use
However, this does not work.
So my question is: Can I do this even when the file from another server is executable?
I know I can do a hyperlink but this only allows method='get' if I don't understand incorrectly.
Any inputs is appreciated!
I want to know if this is doable and get some hints about how to achieve this.
I guess at least it would need a confirmation dialog to run the (possibly evil) macro.
I want to produce an OpenOffice document that will upload itself on save to a hardcoded URL.
Is it possible?
What are the rough steps to achieve this?
My guess is:
bind a macro to the save event
have that macro get the current file binary data
have it post this data to a URL
but before researching about how to do this I need to know if this can be done in the first place.
I don't believe you need a macro to do this, instead depending on your OS you can map a FTP or other type of protocol remotely.
For example in windows you can "Map" a FTP as a drive and this would do exactly the same thing as your describing, you open the file from the FTP and upon saving it will then be written to the remote server. FTP is just an example here, there are other platforms you can use.
If you are at all interested in this method then following the instructions below, otherwise disregard.
Mapping a Network Drive in Windows Vista and 7.
Click on Windows start orb and then click on "computer".
Click on map a network drive.
Map a network drive will then open a new dialog box where you can click "connect to a website"
Simply follow that easy to use wizard and click add a new network location (Choose a custom network location)
Type in your FTP address, including username and password.
Finally name your network location to whatever you want.
Just a suggestion, I really don't think you need any macro unless you plan on distributing these files to other people then yes, but they would need to install that macro/plugin on their open office since there is no way to encode the document itself with such features as far as I know.
So the website constantly changes the data that it displays, and I want to get that data every several seconds and log it in a spreadsheet. The problem is in order to get to the page, I have to have a cookie which I get when I log in. Unfortunately I only know how to program in MATLAB. MATLAB has a function for this, urlread, but it doesn't deal with cookies. What can I do to get to that page? Can anyone help me with this? Point me into a direction where a programing noob like me can succeed please.
You could use wget to download content while using HTTP cookies. I will be using StackOverflow.com as example target. Here are the steps to follow:
1) Obtain the wget command tool. For Mac or Linux, I think it is already available. On Windows, you can get it from the GnuWin32 project or from one of the many other ports (Cygwin, MinGW/MSYS, etc..).
2) Next we need to obtain an authenticated cookie by logging into the website in question. You can use your preferred browser for this.
In Internet Explorer, you can produce it using "File menu > Import and Export > Export Cookies". In Firefox, I used the Cookie Exporter extension to export cookies to text file. For Chrome, there should be similar extensions
Obviously you only need to do this step once, as long as the cookies have not yet expired!
3) Once you locate the cookie file exported, we can use wget to fetch the web page and provide it with this cookie. This of course can be performed from inside MATLAB using the SYSTEM function:
%# fetch page and save it to disk
url = 'http://stackoverflow.com/';
cmd = ['wget --cookies=on --load-cookies=./cookies.txt ' url];
system(cmd, '-echo');
%# process page: I am simply viewing it using embedded browser
web( ['file:///' strrep(fullfile(pwd,'index.html'),'\','/')] )
Parsing the web page is a whole other topic that I will not go into. Once you get the data you seek, you can interact with Excel spreadsheets using the XLSREAD and XLSWRITE functions.
4) Finally you can write this in a function, and make it execute on regular intervals using the TIMER function
Try using the java.net.* classes.
You should be able to use them directly in the MATLAB workspace, as described here: http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/techdoc/matlab_external/f4863.html
Matlab has built-in functions for web downloading. For http sites, there is webread.m and websave.m. For FTPs, there is mget.m
I have a perl script which when run from the command line generates a text file of data with a specific format for use by another application. The script also prints informational warning messages on stderr. I'm writing a web front end for this. In an ideal world when the user clicks 'submit' on the associated form, a page would be displayed in the browser containing the informational messages, and simultaneously a pop-up would appear allowing the user to save the text file of data to disk. I would like this to work on browsers without javascript enabled, so I think exactly what I want is probably not possible.
Some sites I have seen deal with this kind of thing by displaying the page with the informational messages, and a link to the file to be downloaded. This would seem to mean having to store the files and sorting out some sort of security so that another user cannot download your file (not that this is a big deal for the application in question).
I'm wondering if there is a more elegant way of dealing with this? e.g Is it possible to use multipart messages to somehow achieve returning both pieces of information in one go? Is it possible to pop-up a second window with the informational messages without using javascript? Apologies if these seem like basic questions - my programming knowledge is in the domain of DNA sequence manipulation algorithms rather than web page generation..
If (and only if) the data is quick and easy to generate, do it once for error messages and a second time for download. The link or button of the error-message page would regenerate the results and prompt for download.
This is a bit of a hack since you need to consider what to do if the underlying data changes before the user hits the download link. Be careful to set the header correctly for file download vs normal webpage, eg,
if($submit) {
print header(-type=>'application/octet-stream',
-Content_disposition=>'attachment; filename=foobar.dat');
Gen_Results();
}
To be honest, I'd just use a little javascript anyway since it's a pretty safe assumption now a days. Otherwise, use a "noscript" tag for some alternative.