[10363] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Running Applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Jernigan)
Fri Oct 11 09:50:32 1996
From: jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu (Bob Jernigan)
To: francis@di.uminho.pt (Francisco Pinto)
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:44:28 -0500 (EDT)
Cc: francis@di.uminho.pt, www-html@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <9610111105.AA05127@s700.di.uminho.pt> from "Francisco Pinto" at Oct 11, 96 11:05:25 am
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
This can be done but do you really want to? Just to be sure I know
what you're asking, you want to configure your browser so that when
you click a url like "http://disk.destroyer.ugh/erasedsk.exe", the
executable will immediately destroy your disk. Is that what
you want?
bob
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> Hello,
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> I am having a little problem.
> How can I execute an application
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> Binary Executable (application/octet-stream) (exe,bin)
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> immediately after download it from the Internet through a Browser, without
> saving it to disk?
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> The goal is to install automatically a software package, running first
> the setup application. I know that this could be dangerous in security
> terms. But this case, is a particular case, where I know what software
> pack I will run.
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> I need this preferentially for Windows Environments.
> If someone could help me, I'll appreciate.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Francisco Pinto
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