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Re: Running an application on a user's computer from a CGI script.

by fauria (Deacon)
on Aug 19, 2005 at 03:41 UTC ( [id://485038]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to Running an application on a user's computer from a CGI script.

Runing arbitrary code on a remote computer is a security hole for obvious reasons. If you can automaticaly run "Battelfield 2" or whatever, what does prevent you from running something like "rundll32" or any other nasty command that, for example, shuts down the users computer when just clicking a link?

I dont know so much about windows technology, but maybe you can build some kind of launcher using active x components.
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