RE: EMERGENCY: opening application form a URL

[Sendur Sellakumar]

Remember that IE4.0 is the "desktop and internet" browser.  If you open a 

URL with file destinations, it will work in IE4.0 because its a computer 

navigator...


But, previous versions of IE and Netscape have "instruction" set in their 

options to do certain things with files with extenstions(ie. .swf goes to 

shockwave flash).  The same cause with EXE...the default setting of these 

browers is to download  the files.  Due to security restrictions, you can't 

just change the way the browser will handle the file.


Two ideas: 1) Systamatically go through the browsers in the company had 

have the setting - "Run from location" so it will download to the temp dir 

and run.


2) IF its a small application..embed the file into a dll with 

director...I've seen this done, but never have done it myself.


Good luck!


Sendur Sellakumar


-----Original Message-----

From:	Christian Cook [SMTP:

christian [dot] cookisluk [dot] com

]

Sent:	Thursday, February 26, 1998 2:29 AM

To:

'flasherchinwag [dot] com

'

Subject:	EMERGENCY: opening application form a URL


Have designed an intranet in Flash for a large financial group in London

but cannot seem to get the buttons to open an application, I am using

GET URL with the link- file:///C:\Program Files\Microsoft

Office\Office\WINWORD.EXE


But in Netscape all I am getting is a prompt to save the file rather

than save or open.


Any ideas at all. Is this at all possible??


Help urgently needed. DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY.


Cheers all


Christian.


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