*Pyro

Is there any way that I could run a windows command within a web page? I was just wondering for a project I was working on.

DaWei

One of the purposes of browser design is to prevent malicious people from doing this. Some succeed then poke holes in their own boat. I prefer that people who want to do things like this really break a sweat and spend a lot of time researching and learning, rather than get black arts handed to them on a platter.

Just personal opinion, of course. Possibly you would agree if you came to my website and I executed "del *.*" or similar on your machine.

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CoderGuru

What language are you using? A lot of servers by default will not allow you to execute most functions, but PHP has about 4 methods to do such including "EXEC". Asp.net has several too such as "Shell". Again keep in mind most won't allow you to execute as IIS and Apache usually run under their own user account and that user wont have execute permissions on most command files. You can however manually give them permission, as I had to do a lot of times such as when I want to access ffmpeg or ImageMagic. As explained above though, this is not always ideal

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Benoit

Are you trying to execute commands server-side or client-side?

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*Pyro

Well I wanted to create a website that people would be able to come to and basically have an IDE online. Everything would be held remotely, all of your files could then be mobile, and you could even compile online, a cloud compiler / programmer so to speak. I wanted to figure out how to use the commands through a web page because I have no other way of calling a compiler otherwise, and not sure of any way to do this. Any held is much appreciated.

NinjaDev

For clientside abuse, you could use activex, Microsoft seem to get away with plenty using that method.

I would have to check but I believe the WPF BAP applications also have full access to the client machine.

The only issue with both of these is they are windows based, so users in linux/Mac etc may not be able to use your site.

CoderGuru

Pyro again what language are you speaking? There are a lot of security issues at hand there, but as long as u restrict them to simply compile then download the EXE (not execute it) shouldn't be that big of an issue.

Again PHP and ASP.net both have execute methods. You just got to make sure to give IIS/Apache execute permissions on the folder it needs

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DaWei

I smell a misunderstanding of the client/server paradigm. Poddibly I hab a code in my node.

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*Pyro

I wanted to start with being able to compile c++ remotely. The files would just be stored online, not executed, you could then download the exe, and run client side. Other files, like the .cpp and any libraries would be part of the online IDE. I havn't had much of any web development experience besides high school, c++ is my forte. This project was on my mind because I travel a lot, and there isn't the time to get an IDE all set up and find all of my files, and load up a project. I would rather be able to go on a website that I can alter my projects, compile them remotly and run them client side.

CoderGuru

Well you might want to invest the few minutes to find a Remote Desktop solution that fits your needs. That is what I do. But again you need to pick a language such as PHP or ASP.net to host the program

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