shuuhen

I'm sure it's possible. VMware Server 2 uses web interfaces for all the administration of a virtual machine (even a graphical interface to interacting with the VM - this part via a plugin though). If they can allow you to administrate virtual machines and interact with them completely via a web interface, I don't see why running a script on a local machine would not be possible.

What OS (and version) is the Mac running?

You could probably do a Ruby on Rails interface fairly easily. It's been a few years since I did anything web-related, but Rails can do some impressive stuff. There's also a Python framework, but I've never looked into what things have been implementedd with it.

Will the web server reside on the Mac or on another machine? Would the client computer need to transfer files to the Mac?



As far as a web application not running AppleScripts, whoever told you that probably meant you cannot embed one in a web page. Embedding one in a web page would also result in running the script on whatever computer navigated to the site - thus a potential security issue. What you can do is have either a web application hosted on the Mac run the script, or some small server on the Mac that waits for a signal and possibly data from whatever server hosts the web interface.