Launching A Program From A Hyperlink?!

Hi

I am trying to launch applications from a webpage to trigger the desired application to launch on the clients machine when they click the link.

There is no problem that the client machines won't have the application as its for an intranet site on a LAN.

The problem is the security prompt that appears when users click on the link. I am curently coding them like this for example:

<A HREF="C:/PROGRAM FILES/WINDOWSMEDIAPLAYER.EXE">WMP</A>

It works fine but comes up with the prompt 'do you want to run or save this application' - I want it to run automatically without this prompt.

Any ideas?

 

If you can do this, then any person with bad intent can also do that. I don't think this is possible.

 

It is easier to implement some kind of browser based player. Just look at YouTube....

p.l.u.r.

 

thanks for your replies

I dont actually want to launch WMP!! I was using that as an example.

 

You can't launch an abitrary executable on a user's PC in the way you've shown in your example. It's simply not allowed as it would be a huge security risk.

 

Would you tell us the exact requirement?