Open CD ROM Drive

[lagerplease]

In the past I've seen little snippets of code that open the CD ROM drive on a user's machine. Is it possible to do this from a browser using PERL (or Javascript or anything else, really!)?

 

[c4n]

This is supposed to work if you have Windows Media Player installed:

<a href="#" onClick="openCDs()">Open CDs</a>

<script language="VBScript">
<!--
Function openCDs
Set mediaPlayer = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7" )
If mediaPlayer.cdromCollection.count >= 1 then
For i = 0 To mediaPlayer.cdromCollection.count - 1
Call mediaPlayer.cdromCollection.item(i).eject()
Next
End If
End Function
-->
</script>


and this is supposed to work in Netscape 7.1:

<script type="text/javascript">
function opencd()
{
var oWMP = new GeckoActiveXObject('WMPlayer.OCX.7');
if(oWMP.settings.mediaAccessRights != 'none' || oWMP.settings.requestMediaAccessRights('read'))
{
var colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection;
for(var i = 0; i < colCDROMs.count; i++)
colCDROMs.item(i).eject();
}
oWMP.close();
}
</script>


I haven't tried any of the scripts above...

 

[lagerplease]

Nice one. It works fine.

Thanks.