running an exe from an html page

[biot023]

I'm presently trying to redisgn a custom help system w/out needing licenses for anything, and wondered if anyone knew a way of launching an application on the local system from html.
My plan is a simple program that reformats the page depending on what a user clicked, then refreshing the page to show new options. (Something along those lines, anyway.)
I guess I'll need to know about writing to a text file on the local drive from html as well - any hints on this (maybe a cookie?)?
Any help gratefully appreciated,

Douglas
If it don't make you laugh, it ain't true.

 

[Pyramus]

Don't think theres any way at all you can launch an app from HTML (this would be a huge security problem if you could..).

Quote: My plan is a simple program that reformats the page depending on what a user clicked, then refreshing the page to show new options.

You can do this using ASP, maybe ask about on the ASP forum.

 

[biot023]

Cheers, man - I wouldn't have access to ASP on the server I would be using, so I couldn't do that.
I figured it was a dead-end - thanks for confirming that for me.

Douglas If it don't make you laugh, it ain't true.

 

[doublehelix]

It is not a dead end, ASP is not the only way of doing what you want to do. Your solution lies in any of the server-side scripting languages, such as ASP, php, perl, etc.