Running EXEs from Web Servers

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Anyone have any hints, suggestions on distributing compiled .exe's from a web page.
Can you require a "Run from" w/o prompting the user?
Check for locations to write; access rights under NTFS ?
Remove after running?

General inovative stuff.

Answer:

This is a complicated topic. You have to understand how web browsers work *real well*.

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>Can you require a "Run from"
>w/o prompting the user?

Depends on browser security settings, the browser itself and a number of other factories (security zone in MSIE)

You cannot "require" anything from the web server end, but you can have web browsers pre-configured to do what you want.

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>Check for locations to write;
>access rights under NTFS ?

When MSIE (for example) run an EXE from a web server, it dumps it into the temp directory. From there the exe can begin looking around.

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>Remove after running?
>

Trickier than you might think.

>General inovative stuff.

We're actually working on soemthing like this...but its not quite ready for prime time yet.

Check out Microsoft Knowlegebase article Q232077. Here is the link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232077

Article ID:   W15772

File Created: 2009:03:27:10:05:22

Last Updated: 2009:03:27:10:05:22

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