Mittal,
What you are trying to do poses a security problem. If you are not using an
applet, you will not be able to 1) read files on the client machine's hard
disk or 2) run an executatble program on the client machine.
If you choose to use an applet, then you might be able to read and execute
a file on the client's machine if they explicitly allow you to do so by
editing their .java.policy file. This may be feasible if all of the clients
are within a company's intranet but would not be feasible if your clients
are on the Internet.
On the Internet, someone would have to be pretty stupid to give you such
permissions since they would be giving you the ability to snoop on their
computer and possibly delete files.
Regards,
Richard
At 05:08 PM 10/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Hi All,
I have a situation in which there is a link displayed to the user,
the link is reference to say some ".exe" file, that runs in some
particluar software, now if the software
exists on the Clients machine, the appropriate software will run that exe
file, but when the software doesnot exists on the Client machine, the User
should be redirected to the
site from where the User can download the appropriate software..Any
pointers on the problem will be helpful
Regards,
Mittal S.Bhiogade
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