RSH Remote Shell software development tool for HTML and Javascript


ActiveSocket is a Network Communication component for Windows Developers. It runs on any 32 bit and 64 bit Windows Platform, incl. Windows 7, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
It features many IP protocols, incl.: SSH (Secure Shell), RSH (Remote Shell), HTTP(s), FTP, ICMP Ping, NTP, SNMP v1/v2c (Get,GetNext,Set), SNMP MIB translation, SNMP Trap Sender, SNMP Trap Receiver, Telnet, DNS, TCP, UDP, IP-to-Country, Wake-On-LAN and more. Samples are included many popular development platforms, incl. Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET, ASP .NET, Visual Basic, Visual C/C++, ASP, Java, Javascript, PHP, Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, ColdFusion.

RSH stands for Remote Shell. It is a command line interpreter to execute shell commands as another user context on remote computer on a computer network. The remote host on which the rsh executes the command needs to be running the rshd daemon.

ActiveSocket can be well integrated into HTML environments.
This document describes how ActiveSocket can be integrated into HTML projects.


Step 1: Installation of ActiveSocket


When using HTML, there are two ways to install the ActiveSocket Toolkit on a client PC:
  • Automatically using HTML code;
  • Using the ActiveSocket Toolkit InstallShield installation.
Automatic installation using HTML code

You can install the ActiveSocket Toolkit automatically using the following HTML code on top of the HTML page:
   <head>
      <object id="objSocket" codeBase="http://www.activexperts.com/files/network-component/asocket.dll" height="30" width="200" 
              classid="CLSID:916C28A2-8314-4AA5-9E25-18E5DEFBE2A3" viewastext></object>
   </head>
 The ActiveSocket Toolkit will be installated automatically. The user will be asked to confirm the installation, because the DLL is coming from an untrusted site (www.activexperts.com).
There are two ways to avoid prompting:
  • Add the ActiveX/COM location to the user's trusted sites. You can manage trusted manually (by using the Internet Explorer), through a logon script (by appyling the registry change from the logon script) or by using Active Directory Group Policies;
  • OR use a trusted location for the DLL. For instance your Intranet site, because most probably this site has already been added to the list of trusted sites for all users.
Manual installation using the ActiveSocket Toolkit installation procedure

On each client PC, download the ActiveSocket Toolkit from the ActiveXperts Download Site and start the installation. The installation guides you through the installation process.


Step 2: Create the ActiveSocket object in HTML


You must use Javascript to declare and create the objects.

Use the following Javascript code to declare and create the object: 
   var objRsh;
 
   objRsh  = new ActiveXObject ( "ActiveXperts.Rsh" );


Full Sample Code


There are RSH samples included with the product.
You can also find them on the ActiveXperts FTP site: ftp.activexperts-labs.com/samples/asocket