Using a WScript.shell activeX to execute a command line

Question

I am working on calling a .exe file with a WScript.shell activeX. The file is wkhtmltopdf.exe and it is used to convert a HTML page to a .pdf. Everything is working well wh

Answer 1

For anyone else that comes across this issue, I had a similar (but slightly different) problem that I thought I'd share.

I too wanted to run a command using the ActiveXObject("WScript.shell. I needed to run a .bat script that would launch Google Chrome to a specific URL.

The JS I had was as follows:

var objShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.shell");
objShell.run('"C:\\Scripts\\MyChromeBat.bat" MY_URL');

This would properly launch my .bat script which was very simple:

start "" chrome.exe %1

The issue I came across was that MY_URL contained some query parameters and when I used the above JS, the query params would be stripped to an extent. So when I was trying to open

http://localhost:8080/webapp/mypage.html?param1=test¶m2=test2

it would actually open

http://localhost:8080/webapp/mypage.html?param1

The fix turned out to be simple - I had to surround MY_URL in quotes. So I modified the line

objShell.run('"C:\\Scripts\\MyChromeBat.bat" MY_URL');

to be

objShell.run('"C:\\Scripts\\MyChromeBat.bat" "MY_URL"');