Posted by Gordon Burditt on 06/05/05 20:15

>I am at my wit's end trying to get information out of Streamline.net's
>support dept about my problem. They reply quickly enough, but seem to try
>and give out the least possible amount of info each time. The transcript so
>far is reproduced for your amusement below.

It's quite apparent that, as a matter of policy, they don't allow
execution of .exe files from PHP, and if you find a way to do it,
they'll likely do their best to close it, and/or close your account.

As to why this is more dangerous than allowing execution of a CGI
executable, I don't know, and if you convince them the distinction
is stupid, they'll disallow execution of CGI executables.

Think about making the executable a CGI, and invoking it from PHP
with fopen() of a "remote" URL that refers to the host you're on.
(Chances are this is turned off also.)

Gordon L. Burditt

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