Start client application from web server

[Pat L.]

I'd like to start a client application from the web server and pass it
some parameters. Is there a way to do this?

[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

No, the web server does not have enough access to the client's local machine
to start an application there. Sounds like you want an application, not a
web page.

And what does this have to do with databases?

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Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
[url]http://www.aspfaq.com/[/url]




"Pat L." <pat.louvau@enm.com> wrote in message
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> I'd like to start a client application from the web server and pass it
> some parameters. Is there a way to do this?

[Ray at]

Multiposted.

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"Aaron Bertrand - MVP" <aaron@TRASHaspfaq.com> wrote in message
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> No, the web server does not have enough access to the client's local

machine

> to start an application there. Sounds like you want an application, not a
> web page.
>
> And what does this have to do with databases?
>
> --
> Aaron Bertrand
> SQL Server MVP
> [url]http://www.aspfaq.com/[/url]
>
>
>
>
> "Pat L." <pat.louvau@enm.com> wrote in message
> news:b1b8387a.0401270921.495c0aca@posting.google.c om...

> > I'd like to start a client application from the web server and pass it
> > some parameters. Is there a way to do this?

>
>

[Pat L.]

"Aaron Bertrand - MVP" <aaron@TRASHaspfaq.com> wrote in message news:<OvrNFwQ5DHA.2692@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...

> No, the web server does not have enough access to the client's local machine
> to start an application there. Sounds like you want an application, not a
> web page.
>
> And what does this have to do with databases?
>
> --
> Aaron Bertrand
> SQL Server MVP
> [url]http://www.aspfaq.com/[/url]
>

I have a powerful PowerBuilder application loaded on all client
machines on our Intranet. And a growing web-based system that uses
many of the same database tables. I would like to launch an instance
of the application on the client machine and send it, for example, a
customer number. Then the application could open at exactly the right
spot - saving lots of clicking. The parameter that I send would come
from the database based on the data in the webpage that the viewer is
seeing. I know that I can launch a client application by inventing a
new file extension, tying it to the application and placing a sample
file on the client machine in a specific directory. When they click on
a link to that file on a web page, the application launches. What I
don't know is how to send data to the application. Any help would be
great. Thanks.
Pat