Mar. 26, 2004, 09:43 PM
Mar. 27, 2004, 12:23 AM
Mar. 27, 2004, 12:32 AM
Mar. 27, 2004, 09:37 AM
ProxRocks;
Well, it can be easy, if you're willing to live with a limitation or two.
Did you know that a bookmark needn't be a LNK file? 'Struth. You can make it any file you want, including a batch file. If that batch file is gonna do anything in the command line arena, then you might as well point to the PIF file instead, but you get the idea. Simply have the batch file, somewhere in the lineup of commands, execute your browser with the address pre-supplied (in this case, Google).
You can take a step up and write a script that will run under the WSH, and it can do the same thing with more power for executing commands and programs. That's a toss up.
You can also point to a piece of Javascript in your favorites (sometimes called a 'bookmarklet') so that you can execute a batch file from inside of the browser, but I don't see a way to automate that, particularly whenever you surf to a specific page. You'd have to use it to surf to the page (Google), not just rely on it to run whenever you land on Google. Plus, your browser would already have to be running in order to execute the script. (Again, unless you opt to install the WSH - it will also execute javascript.)
There are a few Registry keys that autorun when the browser is fired up, but so far as I know, none of them can be made 'site specific'. I could be wrong, but I've never heard of it being done this way. Plus, they execute classes that the browser will need, not just any ol' file.
Sidki does raise an interesting possibility. Proxo can't run external commands, right? But it can write a whole javascript or VBscript to a page, and of course we can limit that action to just the Google page. So we write a filter that fires only when we visit Google, and that filter writes a javascript into the header. Importantly, it also does not disable the Onload event, it even adds the newly minted script to that very same Onload event, thus ensuring that our script runs when Google is visited. And of course, javascript and VBscript both can be made to run an external command (which is the big reason I don't allow javascripts to run when I'm surfing!!).
Just noodling around with a few half-baked ideas here, feel free to treat them as you wish.
Oddysey
Well, it can be easy, if you're willing to live with a limitation or two.
Did you know that a bookmark needn't be a LNK file? 'Struth. You can make it any file you want, including a batch file. If that batch file is gonna do anything in the command line arena, then you might as well point to the PIF file instead, but you get the idea. Simply have the batch file, somewhere in the lineup of commands, execute your browser with the address pre-supplied (in this case, Google).
You can take a step up and write a script that will run under the WSH, and it can do the same thing with more power for executing commands and programs. That's a toss up.
You can also point to a piece of Javascript in your favorites (sometimes called a 'bookmarklet') so that you can execute a batch file from inside of the browser, but I don't see a way to automate that, particularly whenever you surf to a specific page. You'd have to use it to surf to the page (Google), not just rely on it to run whenever you land on Google. Plus, your browser would already have to be running in order to execute the script. (Again, unless you opt to install the WSH - it will also execute javascript.)
There are a few Registry keys that autorun when the browser is fired up, but so far as I know, none of them can be made 'site specific'. I could be wrong, but I've never heard of it being done this way. Plus, they execute classes that the browser will need, not just any ol' file.
Sidki does raise an interesting possibility. Proxo can't run external commands, right? But it can write a whole javascript or VBscript to a page, and of course we can limit that action to just the Google page. So we write a filter that fires only when we visit Google, and that filter writes a javascript into the header. Importantly, it also does not disable the Onload event, it even adds the newly minted script to that very same Onload event, thus ensuring that our script runs when Google is visited. And of course, javascript and VBscript both can be made to run an external command (which is the big reason I don't allow javascripts to run when I'm surfing!!).
Just noodling around with a few half-baked ideas here, feel free to treat them as you wish.
Oddysey
Mar. 27, 2004, 12:53 PM
Mar. 27, 2004, 06:54 PM
ProxRocks;
I'm afraid I'm gonna have to say that WSH is your only bet here. Javascript itself, and for that matter, VBscript too, doesn't have a direct method of executing external non-script files. That is to say, you can load an external script file with the href= or the scr= attributes, but they have to be in the same scripting language as your caller (.js or .vbs, as appropriate).
That said, there are other add-on methods out in the wilds of the 'Net, but so far as I can find, they are not free. Several close calls, but no cigar in my searches this morning. Curses! [angry] If you get desparate, you might do some research yourself in this direction.
Otherwise, I'd cut the nonsense (to me, anyway) of deriving a text file, a batch file, and a whole slug of filters. Just look at the DOM object <span style='color:blue'>document.location.href</span>*, and then feed its contents via a script to the WSH for external execution of your nslookup program. The shell can also return the results to wherever you want them, so that shouldn't be a problem, I wouldn't think.
I know this isn't what you wanted to hear, but it's the best I can do without breaking out the RAD/IDE and writing a method myself. And Lord knows, I don't have time for that just now!
Gotta run, hope this helped. Ciao.
Oddysey
* If you see "NoLocation", you are letting Proxo filter this site. That's OK, just remember to strip the "no" before you paste that code into a script. [lol]
I'm afraid I'm gonna have to say that WSH is your only bet here. Javascript itself, and for that matter, VBscript too, doesn't have a direct method of executing external non-script files. That is to say, you can load an external script file with the href= or the scr= attributes, but they have to be in the same scripting language as your caller (.js or .vbs, as appropriate).
That said, there are other add-on methods out in the wilds of the 'Net, but so far as I can find, they are not free. Several close calls, but no cigar in my searches this morning. Curses! [angry] If you get desparate, you might do some research yourself in this direction.
Otherwise, I'd cut the nonsense (to me, anyway) of deriving a text file, a batch file, and a whole slug of filters. Just look at the DOM object <span style='color:blue'>document.location.href</span>*, and then feed its contents via a script to the WSH for external execution of your nslookup program. The shell can also return the results to wherever you want them, so that shouldn't be a problem, I wouldn't think.
I know this isn't what you wanted to hear, but it's the best I can do without breaking out the RAD/IDE and writing a method myself. And Lord knows, I don't have time for that just now!
Gotta run, hope this helped. Ciao.
Oddysey
* If you see "NoLocation", you are letting Proxo filter this site. That's OK, just remember to strip the "no" before you paste that code into a script. [lol]
Mar. 27, 2004, 08:09 PM
Hi "Guys",
Just My two dracmas worth, but there is a filter that I saw somewhere that could inject a "localfile" and I saw a Dos exe. file that will execute a bat file. Could a filter that is site specific (google) be written then that could "call" the Dos exe. and that would run the bat file? I'm not sure but I thought I would mention it.
Best Wishes,
"~JaK~"
Just My two dracmas worth, but there is a filter that I saw somewhere that could inject a "localfile" and I saw a Dos exe. file that will execute a bat file. Could a filter that is site specific (google) be written then that could "call" the Dos exe. and that would run the bat file? I'm not sure but I thought I would mention it.
Best Wishes,
"~JaK~"
Mar. 30, 2004, 06:38 PM