sorry in the past I have not been able to formulate my question coherently. This will be my last try. =|
Basically, I want to do something like this website is doing: http://www.ninjavideo.net/video/56388. They are rendering an iframe that points to a port on localhost. You will see nothing in the iframe if you dont have their applet running (which can be found here: ninjavideo.net/applet.php ). I want to write a script that does something like what applet.php is doing, but I don’t think they are using only php code as it won’t run on computers that don’t have php installed. Do you suppose they are using Java/C to do this?
Thanks for all your suggestions.
An Applet is basically a piece of Java code which is served by a webpage and is supposed to run at the client machine. You can learn more about Applets at Sun’s own Applet tutorial. If you’re green to Java as well, then I recommend to go through Trials Covering the Basics first. Opening sockets (ports) using Java code is covered here.
That PHP script is just serving the applet code from the server, so that the client can download it.