Launching an executable from a website?

Question

We\'re developing a site that will only run on the intranet, and computers with access to this intranet will have this executable installed. We can\'t have any \"Would you

Answer 1

Been there done that. MIME types (accepted answer at the moment I add this) requires a lot of configuring on client and server.This is quite a bit of work, and you end up with temporary files etc.

Our solution was to add our own "Custom URL Protocol Handler". Basically, add URL type x-our-intranet and make your corporate app the URL handler for it. Now any link will start your corporate app, passing "x-our-intrenet:foo" as a command-line argument. All it takes is a client-side registry entry, similar to the MIME types.