Phoenix Network Forums

some time ago coka cola put a page on their site which would eject the cd drive when a link was clicked does anyone know how this was done please could you post suggestions as I can see the potential for a few online practical jokes

Shouldn't be possible in normal case. Might be done with ActiveX, but that's a bad idea. Users would have to use the Internet Explorer (or another browser that supports it; i don't know of any), and activating it is a security risk, so most users won't do that. However, it's activated by default in Windows. Last but not least, users would have to acknowledge that your site is going to install something.

It might be possible with Java, but it shouldn't be. There is no other way to do it. Coca Cola might even have made use of a bug in some browser to do that. I don't know.

Short answer: Usually it's not possible. If it is, don't do it.

it was only possible with the later version of IE

if so, that would be quite funny to put some html in an email, and let users eject their cd drives

this code exist??? is yes post they here, is interesting

it existed, but now the new security patch of IE and other browser fixed it

try visit http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/03/27/open_cdr.shtml

May be using a vbs script like that :
http://groups.google.com/group/microsof ... af7c?hl=en

same inconvenient than activeX (download activeX confirmation by the ie user) : the execution of this script must be accepted by the ie user.

kento wrote:it existed, but now the new security patch of IE and other browser fixed it

try visit http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/03/27/opencdr.shtml

Heh, that is truly awesome.

If they hadn't patched that, I'd put it in. I know one of my visitors use's IE, and that would scare the crap out of her.

Silly Microsoft!

First of all HTML will not do it. It might be VBScript or java or gflash. HTML jsut does markup.

BlueFusionX wrote:First of all HTML will not do it. It might be VBScript or java or gflash. HTML jsut does markup.

Yea, we realized that, Bugalinux's link explains it using VBScript and WMP's API.

he he he cute.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
<!--

Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7" )
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection

if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ' cdrom
End If

-->
</SCRIPT>

i show this script my friend and he is thinking now that i'm hacker :D

Wow, this is amazing, i've never thought that ejecting a CDrom with html was possible. It crashes for 5 seconds during the ejecting process though..

kisiek wrote:i show this script my friend and he is thinking now that i'm hacker :D

and whats wrong with being a hacker? I posted this ages ago when i was just kiddie scripting but as soon as you have a little knowledge about the web you can make vartualy anything happen and whats even better is that its legal as long as you dont tresspass or do any damage

I know about that open CD-Rom i got 2 CD-ROms and was one time fallowed link from friend droped and bOOm my CD-Rom's was opened :-D