Re: [Opencd-devel] Uploaded HTML Based Installer

[Henrik N. O. <h....@bt...>]

Thanks Jon, 

Lets all have a look. 

Just a note a bout the FTP.  There have been mixed reports.  It seems
that anonymous users can upload stuff to inncoming, but then noone can
download it unless I as admin physically move it to the public FTP
area.  This is clearly not good as it defeats the aim of us all trying
trying to share files without going through one specific person.  Can
anyone find a better solution to this?  (I've moved Jon's file now, but
for the future ...) 

.henrik 

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 20:00, Jon Saltzman wrote: 
> Greetings -
> 
> I saw that Henrik put up the anonymous FTP, so I put up a framework for an HTML based browser install.  I didn't want to include any apps due to size, so the link just points to a text file, but it seemed to work just fine with an application.
> 
> I heard some talk that just clicking a link would not necessarily allow for the end user to install software on some machines - I would suggest that the solution is either a small javascript (easy to do), or simply to ignore the machines that it won't work on... HTML based installations are fairly standard, and not that ambigious, especially if designed well.
> 
> The file is at http://66.197.181.104/incoming/openCDjs.zip
> 
> I used a nice little program called UF AutoRun Creator which is completely freeware to generate the autorun.inf and professional autorun.exe file.
> 
> I will continue to mess with this and see if I can find away around the browser download/install issue.
> 
> -Jon
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