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[janice_2k4]

Dear gurus & members,
I am a newbie in web programming. I have a button with such code:
<p><a href="IEBAudioRecorder:">Run IEBAudioRecorder</a></p>


This button is supposed to call run a program. It works fine when the program exist on the computer. However, if there is no such file, it will display an empty page with "page cannot be displayed". How can I change this empty page to a pop up message requesting user to download the file/program? I would be very glad is someone could guide me in giving me a sample code for this part. Looking forward to some replies soon.

Thanks in advance,
Janice

[PhillMc]

One cannot run programs from the web on a client machine. They can, however, download the program. Think of the horror we'd be in if, from here through a web page, I had the ability to format your harddisk. The webserver and the client machine are seperated so what you ask is not possible. :)

[ellicit]

Originally posted by PhillMc
One cannot run programs from the web on a client machine. They can, however, download the program. Think of the horror we'd be in if, from here through a web page, I had the ability to format your harddisk. The webserver and the client machine are seperated so what you ask is not possible. :)

[Reli4nt]

What the hell?

[PhillMc]

Originally posted by Reli4nt
What the hell?

:confused: :confused:

[Reli4nt]

I'm sorry, the though of running programs from a website just hit me hard. I am certain that nobody wants that.

The best bet is to runit from the server of allow downloading with instructions.

[PhillMc]

Ok, Gotcha. :)

[sciguyryan]

Originally posted by Reli4nt
I'm sorry, the though of running programs from a website just hit me hard. I am certain that nobody wants that.

The best bet is to runit from the server of allow downloading with instructions.


Yup, that would be a bad idea say someone came allong anddesided to format your hard drive, no problem with that feature just run: cmd.exe format c: -y



RyanJ