[9fans] old trick, new os

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

this is basically what rob posted in november,
except that it works with windows instead of vnc.

	# urls to internet explorer on another machine
	type is text
	data matches '(https?|ftp|file|gopher|mailto|news|nntp|telnet|wais|prospero)://[a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+([.:][a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+)*/?[a-zA-Z0-9_?,%#~&/\-+=]+([:.][a-zA-Z0-9_?,%#~&/\-+=]+)*'
	plumb to web
	plumb start winstart iexplore -new $0

you run /sys/src/cmd/unix/winplumb.exe on the
windows machine, and that causes it to listen for
commands to run on port 17890.  you can specify
a particular ip address for listening, to try to keep
the amount of possible damage down.  for example,
i run 

	winplumb tcp!192.168.233.1!17890

so that it only listens on the vmware interface
(rather than taking commands from the whole internet). 
this is really meant to run on a trusted network.
if you're directly on the internet, you have been warned.

then i have a shell script

	g% cat /bin/winstart
	#!/bin/rc
	
	echo $* | aux/trampoline tcp!192.168.233.1!17890
	g% 

that sends a command to execute.  you could use 
your browser of choice of course, and you could
also use it to start programs other than web browsers.