Does Javelin have to reside on an HP e3000?
Javelin can reside on ANY computer with a web server. For example, suppose your website is on a PC running Microsoft’s Windows NT 4.0 IIS web server. You could have a page on the PC with some text or an icon to connect to an HP or Unix host computer system. When the user clicked on the link, the PC would run a script that would authenticate the user. If the user passed the test, the PC would download Javelin to him or her, with the address of the host computer passed as a parameter. Once it was downloaded to the user’s machine, Javelin would start a connection to the host computer directly from the user’s machine. Note that this does require that the end-user be able to make a socket connection to the host computer through the Internet. If the host is behind a firewall, the end-user still could not connect. If it is not behind a firewall, a non-authenticated user could connect to it if he discovered its address and had the requisite terminal emulator and Telnet, although he would, of c
