Send Params to Exe from HTML

[jbailey]

I have a program that emails a notice to my boss that he then clicks a link and it calls a program here in the office. The problem is I don't know the syntax for sending parameters in html.

The exe executes. All I need to know is the syntax for passing vars via an html link.


<a href="I:\Programs\Experiments\executeParameters.exe hi">send hi to executeParameters.exe</a>


THANKS!!

[MTsoul]

You can't launch a program with parameters. However you can use a batch file.


<a href="I:\Programs\Experiments\executeParameters.bat">send hi to executeParameters.exe</a>

and executeParameters.bat would be


I:\Programs\Experiments\executeParameters.exe hi

[jbailey]

You can't launch a program with parameters. However you can use a batch file.


<a href="I:\Programs\Experiments\executeParameters.bat">send hi to executeParameters.exe</a>and executeParameters.bat would be


I:\Programs\Experiments\executeParameters.exe hi


Ok, that's a good method for achieving that. Thank you MTsoul

Do you know why a url link cannot send params? What is it calling in the OS environment to even pull up a file? Is it calling an API of some kind?

[MTsoul]

You can't send params because your link isn't executing it in the first place. It's to download it. If you click that link, it asks you to download or open. Opening is just a special way of downloading and executing. But you can't send params through that since it doesn't carry over. One is HTTP downloading and the other is executing from the system shell (Windows Explorer).

[jbailey]

You can't send params because your link isn't executing it in the first place. It's to download it. If you click that link, it asks you to download or open. Opening is just a special way of downloading and executing. But you can't send params through that since it doesn't carry over. One is HTTP downloading and the other is executing from the system shell (Windows Explorer).

When you say it's downloading, you're saying that even in an Outlook-like program a url link to a local program contained in an html email will download? It doesn't seem to be downloading. It seems to be executing the exe, since it is a local file.

I'm most likely wrong. Is there another way in HTML to cause a local program to execute and send parameters.

[MTsoul]

HTML isn't the same as Outlook. Outlook interprets HTML different than a browser. I don't have it so I can't say.

[jbailey]

HTML isn't the same as Outlook. Outlook interprets HTML different than a browser. I don't have it so I can't say.

Hmm ok. Well, thank you for the background info. Any ideas on how/where I should continue this research?

[icio]

Can't you use the

<a href="file://c:\test.exe param">file protocol</a>
Not sure

Edit: Don't think that works, just opens in browser.