Access Addressbook from Browser

bwoods

Part of the app. that I am writing is to send an e-mail (From within your browser) ie/netscape etc. Anyone know of any clientside (Java/VB script) where I can access the address book of the client to access a list of e-mail addresses. By selecting one would populate a textbox in the browser.

Outlook for e.g.

Thanks in advance.

B

Evil Phil

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bwoods:
Part of the app. that I am writing </font>

App? yeah right. Perhaps you should change your name to Melissa...



[This message has been edited by Evil Phil (edited 14-06-2001).]

Bard

Doing exactly that will cause:

a> lots of people not to like you

and

b> alarm bells to go off in some client side software (such as virus guards, and Outlook 10 (XP) )

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thankfully, it (probably) can't be done - certainly not in JavaScript to the best of my knowledge.

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Bard

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Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Evil Phil

Not from within a browser no, put the same script executed from:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
Outlook for e.g
</font>

would work. Thus getting Mr bwoods hunted down until he points fingers and says "the Moderators on Boards.ie told me how to do it". The f*cker.


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Hobbes

Maybe I'm reading it wrong but it sounds like he wants to user to be able to select a name within an Address book and then it would take that selection and populate a text field on web form.

Or maybe he did want to create a virus. Who knows. Sorry I can't answer it though.

bwoods

It was a serious question. ****... all I have is a text box in html, I wanted a link to say the outlook addressbook of that user and by clicking on that link would popup the addressbook. By clicking on a name on the addressbook would populate that field with the address.

Simple question I thought!

dahamsta

You could probably do it using Java/DirectX, but the applet/application would need to be signed. And I have no idea how to go about it. But it's a start?

adam

Evil Phil

Well maybe I was to quick of the mark there, and if I was I apologise, but I think you can see how dangerous what your asking for is. It can be done, but I'm not saying how.

kayos

You could use the microsoft mapi controls in a client side script but it very well could cause loads of warning bells to go off.

kayos

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ButcherOfNog

you can't do this, as said above, its a major security issue, you can't use the browser to access info on the clients pc. its a nono, don't even think about it.

perhaps some method of allowing the user to upload/sync their address books with the server, then reading the info from the server would be what you are after.

The Corinthian

You can do it using client-side ActiveX. Needless to say this will limit your your user base to Win32/IE4+ and Outlook, etc.

Evil Phil

You can't do it from a browser, but you can do it with a script.

bonkey

bwoods....

all this talk about "very dangerous", "alarms going off", "Melissa" and so on is completely missing the point.

Heres the important question before *any* of that becomes important....

Is this for running on an Intranet or Internet site?

Intranet sites have no issues dealing with this stuff. You can write a simple ActiveX component and invoke that, or hey, even code to MAPI directly with some client-side scripting.

As long as your browser recognises that you are in a trusted/Local Intranet site, then you should have no problems.

If you are trying to do the same from an internet site, then you are facing the problems described....the client-side script and/or ActiveX stuff you write will *probably* send bells n whistles off.

In either case....the best place to start looking is the object-model for Outlook.
jc