Sti Media: The Source: Ask an FMS Guru #27: Can I execute an external command or program from main.asc?

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June 29, 2007

Ask an FMS Guru #27: Can I execute an external command or program from main.asc?

Just a quick question here. Was going to just respond by email but thought that just maybe others might search for the same thing.

The question: Can I execute an external command or program from main.asc?

The answer:

Nope. The best you have for something like this is loadVars to load a web page that may have server side code in it to run a command. Flash Media Server alone on the server side can not run an external program.

Which sucks.. and a lot of people have made requests for this. Maybe we'll see it in future versions.

Posted by Graeme at June 29, 2007 08:13 AM

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