launch app from browser

[Ken Ray]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:52:38 +0300, Lars Brehmer wrote:

> I just mean "launch" in the simplest sense of the word - launch 
> an app that resides on your hard drive. 

Lars, this is a huge security risk, and therefore is normally not 
allowed unless you are running on an intranet with special permissions 
set forth, etc. The reason is that some malicious person could create a 
link on a public web page that ran a shell command that deleted a bunch 
of files on your disk, or worse.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/