lauch browser on remote windows mach from linux python?

[gry@ll.mit.edu]

My users work at windows PC's. They run my app on my linux server,
displaying the gtk/pytgk graphics via the hummingbird/exceed X server.
When a user clicks on a URL in my app, I want to lauch mozilla, running
on the PC, with the specified URL. Is there some way to do this?

[sorry, I'm a unix/linux hacker -- no understanding of MS system stuff]

I can imagine a tiny python daemon running on each PC, listening for a
connection on a particular port, and reading a URL from it.
Can it just call os.system('mozi lla ...')?
Or do I have to do some .com or .net thing?

I know this sounds like opening a huge security hole in the PC, but
it's MS -- isn't that where holes belong ;-). The daemon could reject
all but appropriate local URL's.

-- George Young

[drs]

Re: lauch browser on remote windows mach from linux python?

<gry@ll.mit.edu > wrote in message news:chkskn$ug4 @odbk17.prod.go ogle.com...[color=blue]
> I want to lauch mozilla, running
> on the PC, with the specified URL.[/color]

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>
> I can imagine a tiny python daemon running on each PC, listening for a
> connection on a particular port, and reading a URL from it.
> Can it just call os.system('mozi lla ...')?
> Or do I have to do some .com or .net thing?[/color]

similar to the method you proposed, but using pure python, you might look at
pyro (http://pyro.sourceforge.net).

-d

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Re: lauch browser on remote windows mach from linux python?

On 7 Sep 2004 10:54:31 -0700, gry@ll.mit.edu declaimed the following in
comp.lang.pytho n:

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> I can imagine a tiny python daemon running on each PC, listening for a
> connection on a particular port, and reading a URL from it.
> Can it just call os.system('mozi lla ...')?[/color]

On the Windows side -- use os.startfile(UR L) and let the OS
bring up the browser configured for that type of URL.

This does imply having the daemon locally...

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Re: lauch browser on remote windows mach from linux python?


<gry@ll.mit.edu > wrote in message news:chkskn$ug4 @odbk17.prod.go ogle.com...
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> I can imagine a tiny python daemon running on each PC, listening for a
> connection on a particular port, and reading a URL from it.
> Can it just call os.system('mozi lla ...')?
> Or do I have to do some .com or .net thing?
>[/color]

sure, you can do:
os.startfile(so meURL)
or:
os.system('star t %s' % someURL)

either one will invoke the configured URL handler. (browser or whatever)