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giving access to run a program from site

but not to let visitors download it

         

Blelisa

4:17 pm on Sep 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Here is the situation, I have a program that sits here in my office on a pc that has a public ip address. I need the ability for various people throught the world to dial this ip address, and run the program. However, and here is the catch, they cannot have the ability to download the program to their pc. This is a liscenceing program that my resellers need to be able to run but not download basiclly. I have tried using remote anywhere program but it is unreliable in certain areas. Any ideas?
Thanks!

raywood

1:36 pm on Sep 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Give us more detail. Do you want the program to execute on your computer and return results to the user? That would be pretty easy to do by setting up a web server, have a page that runs the program, and then returns the results. If the program has to execute on the user's computer, then it gets complicated. You could turn your program into something like a COM object, and install a program on the user's computer that calls the COM object on your computer.
Otherwise, I know of no way to run it locally on their computer without downloading and installing it.