How to run an executable from a Web page

Johnny

How do I create a link on a Web page on my hard drive that will run an
executable file on my hard drive?

For example, let's say I create runpoodle.htm and save it to my hard
drive, and let's also say I have an executable file on the root of C
named c:\poodle.exe.

How can I create a link of some sort on runpoodle.htm that will run
poodle.exe on c:\ ?

Better yet, can I specify a data file that poodle.exe will open after it
starts?

I use Windows XP Pro, and when I create a simple href anything like this

<a href="file:\\c:\poodle.exe"> Run POODLE.EXE</a>

the result is that Windows opens a security warning box asking whether I
want to download poodle.exe.

If you need any other information, please let me know.

If this is not the appropriate newsgroup for this question, can you
suggest which ones I should try?

Thanks.

--Johnny
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Jul 23 '05 #1

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Hywel

In article <yY******************@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>, Johnny says...

How do I create a link on a Web page on my hard drive that will run an
executable file on my hard drive?
You can't.

If this is not the appropriate newsgroup for this question,
It probably isn't.

can you
suggest which ones I should try?

I doubt there are any. Think about this:
<a href="file://c/windows/system32/format c:">Home</a>

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Jul 23 '05 #2

kaeli

In article <yY******************@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>, jo******@kc.rr.com
enlightened us with...

How do I create a link on a Web page on my hard drive that will run an
executable file on my hard drive?

Make an HTA.
(hypertext application)
Use the windows shell object to open anything you want and pass any params
you want.
Most examples on the net are in VBScript/WSH (windows script host). You can
use JScript or javascript if you want, but the examples are fewer and further
between.

HTAs are not subject to the restrictions of regular internet .html files.
They don't run in the internet security zone.

An HTA can be complicated, or it can just look like any other HTML file, but
with a .hta extension.

Here's a really simple one I had laying around from playing. It just opens
Excel.

testExcel.hta
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Run Executable HTA</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<body bgcolor=#565656>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var oShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
var prog = "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\Excel.exe";
oShell.run ('"'+prog+'"',1);
window.close();
</script>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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Jul 23 '05 #3

kaeli

In article <MP************************@news.individual.net> ,
hy**********@hotmail.com enlightened us with...

In article <yY******************@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>, Johnny says...
How do I create a link on a Web page on my hard drive that will run an
executable file on my hard drive?

You can't.

Sure you can.
There are a f-load of caveats about it, though.

The OP was talking about a page on his own computer to run a program resident
on his own computer. That's easy to do. See my post.
It is, however, not at all recommended for general internet use, nor is it
cross-browser or cross-platform.

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