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Name: snowspeeder101
Date: November 4, 2005 at 09:54:54 Pacific
OS: Windows xp SP2
CPU/Ram: 1ghz 256
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Does anyone know of a web script that can execute a file locally off a disk.

Heres that senerao.

Lets say I want a page that has the link
"Open Document"

When I click that link I would like "my computer" to automatically launch the file C:\1.txt in notepad "or whatever is the default application" without asking me if I wish to download it.

Im doing a experiment with an psp, and I cant execute the file locally, so I was hopeing for a web script that can launch a file witout asking to download.

Heres the problem, I have a file in the root partition called h.bin, when I tried a simple HTML file such as.

<HTML>


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Name: Dr. Nick
Date: November 5, 2005 at 23:40:54 Pacific
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Nope. Allowing a script to run a program locally would be a major breach of security.

However for reference you can launch files using the START command from the command line. For example, "start c:\1.txt" would open 1.txt in Notepad.


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