title: To run Selenium tests against Internet Explorer, does Selenium-RC itself have to be on a WIndows server?
body: <p>I hope this is not a totally dumb question. I have a web application running on a Linux server, and I am working on a Linux development machine. We want to set up Selenium testing of the web application. I have started to generate test scripts, in HTML format initially, on my dev box using FireFox+Se-IDE. I am happy with exporting these scripts to Perl to make a test suite which will run using Test::WWW:Selenium. </p>
  
  <p>But to test how the app behaves in IE, presumably I need to have an IE browser executable that can be fired up by the Se-RC process. The Perl WWW::Selenium docs talk about starting a server typically on localhost:4444, for a browser "*firefox", "*iexplore", etc: where citing "*iexplore" causes the RC to search for a browser named iexplore.exe. </p>
  
  <p>Does this mean that I will have to install the Se-RC on a Windows server in order to be able to exercise an 'actual' IE browser? And if I want to also test against Safari on the Mac platform, do I need to install the Selenium RC on a MAc also?</p>