[10364] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Running Applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stuart Young)
Fri Oct 11 09:54:07 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 23:53:37 +1000 (EST)
From: Stuart Young <nakor@glasswings.com.au>
To: Francisco Pinto <francis@di.uminho.pt>
Cc: francis@di.uminho.pt, www-html@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <9610111105.AA05127@s700.di.uminho.pt>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Francisco Pinto wrote:
> How can I execute an application
>
> Binary Executable (application/octet-stream) (exe,bin)
>
> immediately after download it from the Internet through a Browser, without
> saving it to disk?
Without saving it to disk is 'hard' indeed! In fact, I'd say it'd at
least get saved to disk as a cache measure.
> 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.
This alos depends what browser you are running. I know there is a plug-in
for netscape that is specifically for installing software, but I have NO
IDEA of how much it costs to use/liciense on either end, or whatever!
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