[10367] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
RE: Running Applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Brower)
Fri Oct 11 10:42:02 1996
From: Pete Brower <pete@appx.com>
To: Francisco Pinto <francis@di.uminho.pt>,
"'Bob Jernigan'"
<jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu>
Cc: "francis@di.uminho.pt" <francis@di.uminho.pt>,
"www-html@w3.org"
<www-html@w3.org>,
"www-talk@w3.org" <www-talk@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:29:34 -0400
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Good example.
This is the exact reason that I DO NOT want this functionality. I
tend to click on web page anchors before checking what the
anchor is really pointed to. I would hate for someone to
sneak a virus.exe file disguised as some other link.
If, for some reason, this idea takes off, please give me a way to
turn off this feature. Or prompt me that an EXE file is about the
be executed, do I really want to do that?
Pete Brower
R&D Fellow
APPX Software, Inc.
pete@appx.com
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From: Bob Jernigan[SMTP:jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 1996 5:44 AM
To: Francisco Pinto
Cc: francis@di.uminho.pt; www-html@w3.org; www-talk@w3.org
Subject: Re: Running Applications
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
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having a little problem.
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> I need this preferentially for Windows Environments.
> If someone could help me, I'll appreciate.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Francisco Pinto
>
>
