Is it possible to run an exe or bat file on onclick in HTML

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Is it possible to run bat executable file using html5 button event  In IE its achievable using  Shell object if I am not wrong

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No  that would be a huge security breach  Imagine if someone could run  format c    whenever you visted their website

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Here s what I did  I wanted a HTML page setup on our network so I wouldn t have to navigate to various folders to install or upgrade our apps  So what I did was setup a  bat file on our  shared  drive that everyone has access to  in that  bat file I had this code   start  d    server Software   setup exe   The HTML code was    lt input type  button  value  Launch Installer  onclick  window open  file    S Test Test bat      gt     make sure your slashes are correct  I had them the other way and it didn t work   I preferred to launch the EXE directly but that wasn t possible  but the  bat file allowed me around that  Wish it worked in FF or Chrome  but only IE

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You can not run execute an  exe file that is in the users local machine or through a site  The user must first download the exe file and then run the executable file  So there is no possible way   The following code works only when the EXE is Present in the User s Machine    lt a href    C  folder name program exe  gt

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It is possible when the page itself is opened via a file     path    lt button onclick  window open  file    C  Windows notepad exe    gt      Launch notepad  lt  button gt    However  the moment you put it on a webserver  even if you access it via http   localhost    you will get an error      Error  Access to  file    C  Windows notepad exe  from script denied

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You can do it on Internet explorer with OCX component and on chrome browser using a chrome extension chrome document in any case need additional settings on the client system   Important part of chrome extension source   var port   chrome runtime connectNative  your app id           port onMessage addListener onNativeMessage          port onDisconnect addListener onDisconnected         port postMessage  send some data to STDIO      permission file            name    your app id          description    Name of your extension          path    myapp exe          type    stdio          allowed origins                  chrome-extension   IDOFYOUREXTENSION lokldaeplkmh               and windows registry settings   HKEY CURRENT USER Software Google Chrome NativeMessagingHosts your app id REG EXPAND SZ   c  permissionsettings json

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