RE: FN-FORUM Help with forms on a CD-ROM

date posted 12th April 2001 08:34

Hi Garrett

A client of ours wanted (they don't anymore!) to distribute a CD-ROM with
HTML pages which the user could view in their browser. They also wanted to
add a search facility from within the HTML form that called a CGI (or VB
exe) to search an Access database.

They don't require this anymore but it would be interesting to see the best
way of achieving this functionality.

Thanks

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 11 April 2001 18:38
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> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Help with forms on a CD-ROM
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>
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:58:31 +0100 "Andy Stowell"
> [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
>
>
> > A client of ours wants to have HTML pages read from a CD-ROM
> and submit a
> > form to call a VB executable on the CD-ROM. This executable would then
> > return a page of HTML to the browser.
> >
> > Does anyone know if this is possible without a call to a web
> server, and if
> > so how to go about doing it?
>
> Submitting a form with a web server won't work. You need
> something between
> your HTML page and the logic (in your case the VB exe) to pass the
> information.
>
> What exactly is the functionality they're trying to achieve here?
> I can't see
> any reason for needing a web server to pass info back and forth,
> especially
> for something being distributed on CD-ROM.
>
> If you can give me a few more details I might be able to help (used to do
> quite a lot of CD-ROMs).
>
> G.
>
>
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