用于连接到客户端桌面应用程序的网站

Question

I have an application written in VB.net that runs on a clients pc. I also have a website written in mostly javascript, http and php. The thing I want to do is to connect the website to the application , so that when ie a certain button is pressed, it connects to the client application and raises an event.

I have tried approaches like TCP socket communication by having a TCP Socket Server running in the background of the client application. I can connect to the server by having a client connection from another vb.net application, but whenever I try to connect through PHP it fails. (I have only tried PHP since server-side scripting seems to make more sense in this case)

Another approach I have tried is to have an HTTP server running in the background of my desktop application and then have a PHP script connect to it, that fails as well.

One thing that I've been thinking about as a last resort is to simply have a textfile on the webserver and a PHP script writing to it after given parameters and then have the client application to read the file every few seconds. But this wouldn't be very efficient with larger amounts of data, would it?

What is the proper way of doing this? If you have any questions about the code I've been using, feel free to ask.

If you don't get my blurry explanation, try this image: http://i.imgur.com/8njxVFj.png

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

为了使您的数据更有条理，我建议您将数据存储在数据库服务器上，例如mysql（免费）。