Access to a program through web

blelisa · 09-27-2004, 09:22 AM

Here is the situation, I have a program that sits here in my office on a pc that has a public ip address. I need the ability for various people throught the world to dial this ip address, and run the program. However, and here is the catch, they cannot have the ability to download the program to their pc. This is a liscenceing program that my resellers need to be able to run but not download basiclly. I have tried using remote anywhere program but it is unreliable in certain areas. Any ideas?
Thanks!

imaginemn · 09-28-2004, 07:40 PM

You can always try remote desktop form windows. It's free and part of WindowsXP. It can also be downloaded from MS website. This gives you a virtual desktop. The only problem with this could vary depending on the software they are trying to run. Not all software can have multipe instances/copies running at the same time.

imaginemn

Fusion · 09-29-2004, 02:26 PM

littleFella · 10-09-2004, 11:11 AM

Did you try TightVNC?

Or you could modify your program's main module to sef destruct after every run via an OnFormClose event.
If your program is too large for that then another option my look somewhat like the following:

1. Modify the program to require authentication by your server, i.e. every time they run it, the program asks for password, conects to your server via http, verifies the user's credentials and runs if they are ok, dies if they aren't.

2. Let the users download the program. They won't be able to run it anyway, unless your server lets them.

3. set some sort of transmission encryption to minimize security risks.