Calling an external application from Javascript.

[Shereef]

Hi All,
I need to call an external application from my javascript and that external appn(c or c++) should give an html page back to me and i need to produce that new html page to the user.
will this idea work?
Pls help me with a solution. I would like to avoid java,.net or webserver.

[acoder]

Welcome to TSDN.

Why not just use Ajax for this? The server-side code returns you some HTML which you can display.

[Shereef]

Welcome to TSDN.

Why not just use Ajax for this? The server-side code returns you some HTML which you can display.

Thanks for u'r reply.
I don't have any idea on Ajax?
Actually what i need to do is,
1. User will enter some input to the html page and i need to process it by an external application and i need to give the result back to user.( like JSP ans Servlet) but i would like to do this without using java. That is y i thought to produce a seperate html page from the external application and produce it to the user.
Will this work with Ajax?
Pls do reply...

[acoder]

It will work with Ajax, but as part of ajax, you need to use a server-side language.

See the Ajax tutorial links in the Offsite Links thread at the top of this forum.

[Shereef]

It will work with Ajax, but as part of ajax, you need to use a server-side language.

See the Ajax tutorial links in the Offsite Links thread at the top of this forum.

Hi,
Any other way other than Ajax?
Because i need to run an application without installing any software?
for eg: with c or c++ with Html.
Inorder to work with ajax the user have to install ajax right?
I would like to develop a simple application without forcing the user to install any s/w.


Thanks

[iam_clint]

no the user doesn't have to install ajax.