[Javascript] Forward image via http with ajax

[John Warner]

That's why I suggested automating this with WSH. (again assuming Windows
clients on the LAN with the camera). User not involved, the script
handles the process. However, JavaScript on a browser inside the LAN
will not be the source of automation

John Warner


> -----Original Message-----
> From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu 
> [mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 8:21 PM
> To: [JavaScript List]
> Subject: Re: [Javascript] Forward image via http with ajax
> 
> 
> Have you ever tried to deploy even a minimally complicated (3 
> step) process to an unknown level of 
> end-user sophistication?  "LAN Administrators" would be 
> competant to make this work (maybe).  An 
> at-home user who had their now-at-college child setup their 
> router and can't identify their 
> browser until you tell them to "click on the internet" makes 
> this problem more challenging for 
> Terry to solve.
> 
> 1. Use the ip camera's built-in web server to take a picture 
> and download the image to the 
> harddrive
> 2. Go to the uploader page, select the picture file you just 
> got from the camera & hit submit
> 
> sounds easy enough - until a potential user forgets where the 
> file is between step 1 and 2, or 
> they cancel the download because "I don't have a disk" at the 
> "Open or Save to disk" question in 
> step 1.
> 
> Good Luck Terry - I would not want this task myself  :)
> 
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:25:17 -0600
>   Scott Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:
> >users, browsers assume it is NOT okay to do  what you want 
> to do.  Why 
> >exactly can't you get the
> >cooperation of  either the LAN administrators (who could 
> make the IP camera  accessible from 
> >outside the LAN if they were okay with what you're  doing) 
> or the users (who could save and 
> >upload the images to your  remote server if they were okay 
> with what you're doing)?