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Communicate with parallel port via web interphace

Author
27 Oct 2006 7:26 AM
nevermind
Guys, i want to do project in which i will be able to control parallel
port pins with a web interface.Does anyonehave any ideas to start with.
Thanks

Author
27 Oct 2006 12:20 PM
Jester98x
nevermind wrote:
> Guys, i want to do project in which i will be able to control parallel
> port pins with a web interface.Does anyonehave any ideas to start with.
> Thanks

Use the web application to interface with a service or console
application that manages the parallel port.

Steve
Author
27 Oct 2006 5:42 PM
Dick Grier
Hi,

Control of an IO port (such as a printer) requires a device driver (see
IONet.dll for a .NET implementation, or IOocx.ocx for an ActiveX control) on
my homepage.

If you mean for this to be a browser-based application, executing on a
client machine... In general, you are SOL.  The rights required to install
the device driver (admin) require that it be installed locally, and not as
part of something that you might download.  This doesn't mean that it is
impossible, just hard and error-prone.

If you mean something else, please clarify.

Dick

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