execute a binary from ASP

[UncleWobbly]

Evening all... hope you are surviving Xmas and ready for new year...

I have an application that I maintain/develop for a company and I am soon to
start work on subsuming the functionality of a VB prog into it's web based
replacement, all going swimmingly at the mo. But, I have been given some
code that telnets onto a router looking for alrms and I need to replicate
this in ASP. My favourite way would be to call the root code of the original
application and it perhaps deposit the results somewhere I can get to them,
a CSV or whatever...

Question: how can I call out to a bit of binary on the server (in similar
fashion to VBs "shell" command) without having to buy a 3rd party component?
(budgets, blah blah)

Even if I don't use the original code, I will still need to telnet in and
query the router - in the background and with no more requirement from the
user than: click on a link... brief pause... results in a web page. So
telnet:// in the link is not an option - we can't have Johnny User dabbling
with the router from a command line :o)

It's not the returning of the results, I can think of a hundred ways to get
the data back into the asp loop, or the winsock stuff to do a robotic
telnet, it's the actual *executing of the code* that does the dirty work.

Any ideas warmly welcomed.

TIA, best wishes to all for 2004

[UncleWobbly]

heh... live 'n' learn... why did I not consider
Server.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")?

gawd! I feel sheepish... Thanks for looking anyway :o)

<snipped embarrassing newb-like question>

[Bob Barrows]

UncleWobbly wrote:

Evening all... hope you are surviving Xmas and ready for new year...

I have an application that I maintain/develop for a company and I am
soon to start work on subsuming the functionality of a VB prog into
it's web based replacement, all going swimmingly at the mo. But, I
have been given some code that telnets onto a router looking for
alrms and I need to replicate this in ASP. My favourite way would be
to call the root code of the original application and it perhaps
deposit the results somewhere I can get to them, a CSV or whatever...

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2059

Bob Barrows

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Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET
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[UncleWobbly]

Thanks for this Bob... I had pretty much worked this out 10mins after my
original posting :o|

but this is a fine article that answers everything I need - much
appreciated.
"Bob Barrows" <re******@NOyahoo.SPAMcom> wrote in message
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UncleWobbly wrote:

Evening all... hope you are surviving Xmas and ready for new year...

I have an application that I maintain/develop for a company and I am
soon to start work on subsuming the functionality of a VB prog into
it's web based replacement, all going swimmingly at the mo. But, I
have been given some code that telnets onto a router looking for
alrms and I need to replicate this in ASP. My favourite way would be
to call the root code of the original application and it perhaps
deposit the results somewhere I can get to them, a CSV or whatever...

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2059

Bob Barrows

--
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET
Please reply to the newsgroup. This email account is my spam trap so I
don't check it very often. If you must reply off-line, then remove the
"NO SPAM"