CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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greycode
greycode

Reputation: 113

Opening locally installed windows program via PHP?

I am trying to accomplish the following:

I want a button on my website that will open a windows program on the users computer. So for example, someone clicks "Remote Desktop" on my website, and it will open mstsc.exe on the machine.

Is this possible with any language?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 200

Answers (1)

Joeytje50
Joeytje50

Reputation: 19112

The way you could do this is via an URI scheme. For that to work though, your application itself needs to have an URI scheme attached to it. Examples include mailto: (opens your email client - can also be a web client such as gmail), irc: (opens Internet Relay Chat client) and an example of a truly custom URI scheme (it isn't listed in the official list) is Github's Desktop application, which uses the URI scheme github-windows:. Again, for this to work, the app itself needs to have this built into itself.

I assume you didn't make this mstsc.exe "Remote Desktop" yourself, it is impossible to start this application in any way whatsoever using just your browser. If that would indeed be possible, it would be a massive security hole. It would mean you could simply run any program (or uninstall file) you'd like.

Note: If you did indeed make the application yourself, I suggest asking another question on this site, but making it specifically about registering custom URI schemes to your application, and also specifying what language your application is written in.

Upvotes: 2

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