Does anyone know how to launch a *.exe from a web page.

The *.exe will be on the local hard drive, so I want to be able to launch it using something like: Launch c:\Mydocuments\MyProgram.exe

Any suggestions gratefully received.



Regards

Owen.

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Regards

Owen.

Multiple Parameter UD4 / Access 2000 Database Search Tutorial:
www.tdsf.co.uk/tdsfdemo

wow, thats really cool!

I think you should add that to the FAQ section <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Can this be used to open a command prompt and run FTP.exe? I am thinking about using this to upload files to my webserver. Since this is an intranet application, I can make sure all the clients have the necessary pieces in place.

well, if it does allow you to fire of exe's then I don't see why not...

But instead of using ftp.exe. did you know that Internet Explorer has an FTP client built in?
All you have to do, is navigate to a URL that looks like this (of course replace your relevant information)

ftp://theUsername:thePassword@[url]http://www.yourFTPsite.com[/url]

then you get an explorer view of the webfolders... you can even drag and drop to the explorer tree (click the folders button on the toolbar)

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Edited by - joelmartinez on 28 Dec 2001 18:36:37

Yes, I have used that before to get to an ftp site. What I am doing is having the user browse to a file on their hard drive and then hitting a button that will automatially upload the file to my server. Can I force the upload to start by redirecting to a certain ftp URL?

nope, what you're talking about can be accomplished by using Pure ASP Upload...
if you don't know where to find it, just do a search on udzone for it.

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