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Subject:Re: Running executables and HTML From:"Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 30 May 2001 08:04:28 -0400
That's the way it's supposed to be.
Think about it from an Internet security point of view. When you're out surfing the Web and you click on a link, is it your expectation that an executable located on someone else's server will begin running on your computer? Think about the havoc it could wreak, scouting around your files to find all sorts of personal information, reformatting your hard disk, whatever.
The Web is specifically designed to try to prevent this from happening (unless you use Outlook for email, of course).
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From: irene_preire -at- ds-fr -dot- com
Reply-To: irene_preire -at- ds-fr -dot- com
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:55:30 +0200
>Hello to one and all.
>
>Does anyone know if it's possible to run an executable by clicking on an HTML
> link and if so, how?
>
>
>
>The situation - I have an intranet site with executables that I want to make
> available to others so I used them as targets for my HTML links. The
> problem? When you click on a link, it doesn't run the exe, but it offers
> to download it.
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