Calling Application from Email Link

[matt23lucier]

I have a windows application that sends out an email to a person when it reaches the necessarry point. Inside the email there is a link to the application, when the user clicks this the application opens. My problem is I need to be able to send this application an argument on startup so when the user clicks this link the application will open, parse the argument and show the appropriate record (this is based on the argument sent). Does anyone know if this is possible. Thanks for you help.
Thanks
Matt

 

[djfrear]

Well, it is "possible" but 99% of all security settings would disallow it. It's a massive security issue if a program can be executed from HTML - if its internal and your email clients allow it, this would probably do it:

file://C:\mypath\myapp.exe%20-arg1%20argtext

Where %20 represents a space in the path. Not tested this but it should work if nothing is there to disallow access.