Call exe from html

Subscribe to our Free Newsletter: Subscribe. TypeScript Tutorial for Absolute Beginners. Microsoft Azure Portal Tips and Tricks. Shell" ; WshShell. Shell " ; WshShell. Next ». Downloads Windows Visual Studio In worst case, it could be used locally or limited to some corporate Intranet, where system administration could make sure everyone is using IE of required version.

However, I would never recommend doing even that. Such practice really exist, but only in quite lousy companies. Don't do evil. If you explain your ultimate goals of all this activity, you might have a chance to get some useful advice.

Posted Jul pm Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov. You are welcome. Requirements could be a problem. One of the most difficult parts of this kind of work is negotiation about requirements and convincing customers to change them.

It is apparent that many customers don't really know what they need or interested in, but many pretend they do; but the same problem is with the developers. So, working by such "requirements" means the risk to not develop anything at all. The negative result is a result, too. It is much better then lasting delusion. So, if you agree this is reasonable, please consider accepting this answer formally green button -- thanks. You can do it by using the Windows Protocol Handler mechanism. Check out the below StackOverflow link: windows - How to launch an application from a browser?

Posted Aug pm Member Dave Kreskowiak Aug am. Still doesnt work for me Although it shouldnt matter- I call this.

If I remove the last line web page opens up fine Let's be clear, I am running this from the command-line, executing a file name test. Do not expect to be able to launch applications from a web page with this Javascript embedded.

That is against the security restrictions. Is there a work around for this? Everything is done locally as a prototype on my machine I am not publically hosting it I just want the. Show 3 more comments. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Besides, for your query for why to use a exe file: Browser doesn't give me any functionality to download the video file.

But suppose I need to play the video even when my internet connection is not working or my server is down duw to some maintanence. How will I achive this?

That's because what you are doing isn't the right way to do this. You haven't shown us the server side code where you are sending back the video as a response. But if you are saying that you don't see a window pop-up to save the file when you click on the link, then all you need to do is set the Content-Disposition response header as "attachment;" google for it and you'll find more information.

Once the user has downloaded the video which of course will require server access he won't need the access to the server anymore. So it won't matter if server is down. Matthew Brown.

If you want the video to work without the Internet, then the user needs to download the video. The easiest way to do this is to supply the link. An exe won't help play it remotely if the network isn't there, and an exe isn't needed to play it once it's downloaded.

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