Re: URGENT:Print to a client's serial port through web page

Not without some security hole on the device. There must be a process of
some sort running on the device and receiving messages from the server and
writing things out the serial port.

Paul T.

"r12345" <r12345@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1119699148.475631.191160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks Paul,
> ill certainly explore this possibility,
>
> Meanwhile can i have a code (in a dll) that runs on the web server to
> write to the serial port of the client machine which has a defined IP
> adress.
> ie: from web server - run the dll on the web server - that opens and
> writes to the COM port of the client machine(scanner)
>
>
> Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] wrote:
>> The only way that I can think of to do that is to have some code that
>> runs
>> on the Windows CE device. Maybe that's an ActiveX control which is
>> embedded
>> in the Web page and which can be scripted to do the right thing. There's
>> no
>> out-of-the-box way to access local hardware from a Web page, of course,
>> as
>> that would be a huge security hole.
>>
>> Paul T.
>>
>> "urgent" <urgent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:6EEE53C1-F727-43EC-93DB-7B2867DC33CE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Need the web-page to write to the client's serial port to which a
>> > barcode
>> > printer is connected. The client does not have the printer's driver.
>> > Am
>> > I have the foll:
>> > I am running this ASP.Net (c#) code on a web server : windows 2000 on
>> > IBM
>> > PC.
>> > The client is a scanner (vehicle mounted VRC scanner- by Symbol). with
>> > OS:Win CE 3.0
>> >
>


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