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Gennady46 · Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 2

Hi, I tried sevel methods of running .exe file automatically when user visits a page. But nothing seemed to work.

One of them was CGI method.
Here I have appl.exe file. So I renamed to appl.cgi
Uploaded to http://website/myfolder/appl.cgi folder

then used html on a page:

<action="http://website/myfolder/appl.cgi">

Now, it is suppose to load it automatically, but it does not. Can anyone tell me how to achieve this?
Or tell me other methods with examples.
Thanks in advance, G.G.

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4289 Location: MS

For safety reasons, browsers will not automatically run an executable without providing lots of the normal warnings or triggering the "download file" function.

NO ONE wants their browsers to run executables on page load. You could easily infect a computer that way if browsers didn't have the built in safe guards.

Now, with all that said, :P:

Launch-in-IE Web pages can start applications. Securely.