Is it possible to run an .exe or .bat file on '

Question

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

Answer 1

No, that would be a huge security breach. Imagine if someone could run

format c:

whenever you visted their website.

Answer 2

It is possible when the page itself is opened via a file:/// path.

<button onclick="window.open('file:///C:/Windows/notepad.exe')">
    Launch notepad
</button>

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

Answer 3

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:

<input type="button" value="Launch Installer" onclick="window.open('file:///S:Test/Test.bat')" />

(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.

Answer 4

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.

<a href = "C:\folder_name\program.exe">

Answer 5

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