Is there a way to use any ActiveX com components with nodejs?
Actually, I would never need this but I'm running nodejs on Windows and trying to send ping requests without forking new processes (no such module exists for Windows).
As some Activex components exist for sending ping requests with raw sockets, maybe I can use them.
Any ideas? Thanks.
There is node-win32ole ( npm install win32ole ).
An ICMP ping module for Node.js now exists:
(updated)
You could try to use node-ffi to bind to Win32 and launch a COM/ActiveX component (CoCreateInstance) or access winsock/icmp directly. See https://github.com/rbranson/node-ffi
Or try to ping via WMI, e.g. "select * from win32_pingstatus where Address='...'". See https://npmjs.org/package/wmi