Running EXE from a HTML Link

[rohitpabby]

Hi All!

I can run an EXE from a DOS prompt, passing parameters with it. Now I want to do the same thing through an HTML page by clicking a hyperling. How to do this? Please Help....

Thanks.

 

[sunaj]

Hi,

If you make a link to an exe file the user can download the file an run it on their own computer.
The other possiblity is to run an exe on the server where the html file is located. The exe file must be located in the cgi-bin directory on the webserver. You can communicate between the program and the webpage using CGI (Common Gateway Interface). See

http://pw1.netcom.com/~obrienk/

for a module.

Sunaj