Re: Updating scripts/applets company-wide
Re: Updating scripts/applets company-wide
- Subject: Re: Updating scripts/applets company-wide
- From: vectormation <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:25:18 -0400
You could add a url access-based handler to the run handler that checks a
small web page, determining from the enclosed data whether to continue
unabated, to prompt the user to update, or to autoupdate, etc.
Not that I've actually done this but... free advice.
:)
~Phi
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I've finally begun to deploy some applets to end-users machines in my
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company. Now when I update the scripts I'm left wondering how best to
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update the end-users. I've thought about using a thirdy party installer
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but was wondering if there wasn't something that could be done via AS.
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The goal would be a self-updating solution which would:
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1) check a server for a newer version
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2) read in changes
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3) dynamically update code within the applet
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I guess the alternative would be to just download an entire file and
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replace the old, but we are on slow Internet connections in four different
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locations and the thought of 70 computers jumping on the file server isn't
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the ideal way to go I'm thinking. I use many apps that have a self-update
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feature, and I'm wondering how real world developers tackle this issue?
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