Just the Fax :-)

[Kk4JC]

Can you do something in the html of a page to make it fax a document, like through efax.com?
Let me explain. I have an invitation with a form at the top that is currently setup for a person to type an e-mail address into to send an e-mail of a link to the invitation.
Can I make a form that you type a fax # into and it'll fax it?

Kk

 

[Fallen Kell]

I'm sure that its possible, but you will need a few things. First you need to know if someone has a setup that already does this and allows public access to use the system. Then all you need to do is find out what data it requires for you to send it (i.e. fax number, and data to be sent in fax).

Or you can try and do it yourself. You would need to create some type of CGI program that would pass the data into an API for a fax machine. This will require a fair amount of programming knowledge and a fax system which has programming API's that allow you to do this.

 

[JackMDS]

If a person that you want to send the Fax to has a normal Fax Machine that is connected to the Telephone line, somewhere along the process a transfer from Internet to Tel. has to be done, that what efax.com can do for you.

A fax modem can dial a Telephone and sense a Fax, but I doubt that there is a fax modem program that can take HTML file and sense the Tel. Number.

If you want to take a look of what is out there:

http://www.davecentral.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?query=fax

If you are talking about long-term need of a business to perform such a function Cisco.com has the Hardware that can be installed locally (it ain?t cheap).