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Using ActiveX Com Components with nodejs. Is it possible

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.

An example of how you can create a COM object from JavaScript is:

var rs = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Recordset");
Solution

  • (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