Adding an .exe to a web page

[erleichda]

Hi, I need to add an executable to a web page. When I try, I get "Could not load xxxx.exe" (xxxx is the filename). Please let me know, thanks!

 

[vickero007]

What kind of executable? Do you want it to run when the page loads or make it available for download? Most executables that would try to load when the page loads would be viewed as a virus and wouldn't load.


-Volkoff007

 

[erleichda]

Hi, thanks for the response. I don't want it to run when the page loads...I want them to be able to click on a link which causes it to execute. Let me know...thanks!

 

[vickero007]

HTTP (web pages) cannot run executables like you can run them in Windows. Web servers only respond to requests for pages, then dish the right pages out. There are web services and applications that can do almost anything an executable can do, but your users would actually have to download the program before they could run it.

Depending on what you want the executable to do I might be able to point you in the right direction for a workaround.

-Volkoff007