Re: Netmeeting ActiveX Control Issue

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On Sat, 21 May 2005 13:57:01 -0700, TZeigler wrote:

> I have configured a web page with the NM ActiveX Control embedded so that
> Internet NM users can initiate a data-only call to a specific internal NM
> client on my LAN, based on Phone Number.
> I have ISA Server 2000's H.323 Gatekeeper configured to manage the LAN NM
> Clients. The NM ActiveX Control CallTo: URL directs the Internet NM client
> to contact the ISA H.323 Gateway (external interface) and call the
> appropriate Phone Number.
> This all works pretty well, except that when the Internet NM user fills in
> the Phone Number field and clicks the Call To button, a small dialog pops up
> that says "[Phone Number entered on webpage] is asking to join . . ." There
> are Ok and Cancel buttons on this dialog, but the mouse pointer is now an
> hourglass so you can't act on the dialog.

Actually you can react to the dialog box afaik ( by clicking on OK despite
the hourglass cursor). This I would judge to be a bug but I doubt any fix
will be forthcoming.




> However, if you right-click on the
> NetMeeting tray icon (it appears once you click the Call To webpage button),
> then you can usually click Ok at the dialog box. After this, the LAN NM
> client gets the "Do you accept this incoming call" prompt and the call
> connects and proceeds normally.
> This dialog does not appear if we configure the start the Internet NM client
> manually (Start | Run | conf.exe) with the appropriate Gateway info and make
> the call that way.
> So, my question is, what is causing the initial dialog box to pop up when we
> use the webpage, and how can I eliminate it?


You can't eliminate the dialog box -- I believe it was introduced as a
"security" feature so that a call cannot be initiated from a web page
without user interaction ( it could be automatically generated with
javascript). I think the dialog box is poorly worded and has the additional
problem that you point out with the hourglass cursor but I can't seen any
fix being generated so I think you will have to live with the problem.
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