Re^3: Perl Cgi mysql document management

Your wish is unfortunately (or fortunately!) not possible, except perhaps within a Java wordprocessor / browser / sandbox environment or something on M$'s Real Soon Now wishlist for .NET. Your WP can't (yet!) save to the 'net, and your 'net system can't steal a file from your filesystem.

The only other alternative I see is having a daemon or timed ("cron") service on the user's system that automatically checks for edited files and uploads them back to the 'net server.

Much as we'd all like to see such capabilities, they are too easy to exploit. That's why I used the word "steal" above; I did so deliberately. M$ ActiveX comes to mind, and we all see horror stories of how crackers exploit what's left of it in Outlook and IE.

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Re^4: Perl Cgi mysql document management by consiglieri (Initiate) on Mar 08, 2005 at 19:23 UTC
If wishes where fishes then the ocean would be full of them..hey wait a minute..the Oceans are full of them!! I see your point, and i'm beginning to understand that it would be a problem allthough i thought that i could initiate a connection between the the two machine and use win32 module..However i did come to think that one could have a webform where one fills out fields and then generates a document via latex or perhaps an oopenoffice file...allthough i havent discovered any modules for it yet..but havent really searched that much. Always looking Thomas	[reply]
Re^5: Perl Cgi mysql document management by samizdat (Vicar) on Mar 09, 2005 at 14:07 UTC
Using a web form to edit the content is different than what you were asking for. :) I've doen some work on WYSIWYG doc handling, but not with Word file format. Using HTML and JS, it's barely possible, but Java should be a possibility. You might see if the OO.org folks are considering adding an HTTP portal to their stuff so OO becomes a 'browser'. That would solve your problem and add a neat twist to OO. Given that it's Open Source (assuming you can d/l all the source incl. the Java!!!) *somebody* is sure to take it on.	[reply]