Hello,

So I have really no idea how to do this and my knowledge of web programming is fairly small unforunatly. I have an application that I would like to run over the web. When it finishes I would like the user to be able to download the output file which is created.

Also there's one more thing I would like it to do if possible. That is pop-up another window showing an image that the program creates. The image is made in a new window anyway on the program, an X11 window.

Any help would be great thanks.

PB

That depends a lot on how the application works.

If there needs to be interaction with the application as it is running then a Java applet is probably the best approach.

If all the parameters can be provided before the application runs then the application can be written in any language and a web language like php can be used to start the application pass in the parameters, gather the output and return it to the user.

If the application will use a lot of resources when running then you will want to be very careful how you allow users to trigger it and how you actually link it into the web architecture.

Thanks graemef.

I'll probably want both at the end of the day. But I'm getting started on the non-interactive one first. I don't know javascript, which leads me to a question, any good links to get started?

One more question for you, you said Can you explain a bit more what you mean?

Cheers,

If anyone can trigger the application, and the application is resource hungry, then it would be very easy for me (a nasty person if you got to know me) to lock up your system. I just write a script that calls you application thousands of times in a loop so that it will get to a point that your server is unable to do anything other than run the application.

Good point.I wasn't sure what you mean, if you were thinking malicious or if you were thinking problems with the serve.

Thanks