Re: Are calling COM applications a trojan?

It can't. If you put the appropriate header type (ms-word in this case), IE will open word. Netscape and other browser will open a download dialog box of the document. py At 04:57 PM 4/11/01 +0800, you wrote:

Then, how can it open a words document on the client side? ----- Original Message ----- From: Delbono <delbono@dsc.it> To: Zeus <techzeus@pacific.net.sg> Sent: Wednesday, 11 April, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Are calling COM applications a trojan? Com Apps, are not called on a client side. Actually, if you print out the version of the com application, it displays the version of the software installed on the server, not the one on the client. If I have Word2000 on m local PC and on the server I have Word97, a script taht prints App.Version, will print MSWord97. Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:26 AM Subject: [PHP] Are calling COM applications a trojan? I'm sure many of you seasoned developers have used COM before (not necessary with PHP) but if PHP is a server-side language, how can it call a program on the client to open. Isn't it as deadly as a hacker opening your computer? Lets see some sides :) ------------------------------------------ David Chua aka. Zeus Founder, Frozened.com ------------------------------------------ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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