How to access local installed .exe from browser?

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I have to access different local installed .exe to open different type of documents from browser. I want to achieve this without hampering security of documents.

I tried below code, its working but later found that it is very old way and it also can not insure security.

Thanks,
Pushkar

What I have tried:

HTML

<html>
  <body>
  <p>Click <a href="file:///C:\FolderToUpload\12.doc" class="navbar">here</a></p>
  </body>
</html>

Posted 14-Apr-16 7:34am

Pushkar Prabhu

Updated 14-Apr-16 21:08pm

Richard MacCutchan

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-14T08:11:00

Solution 1

Code running in the browser has no access to the local system. You cannot explicitly launch an application; you can only send the browser a document with a specific MIME type, and let the browser decide what to do with it.

Posted 14-Apr-16 8:11am

Richard Deeming

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Apr-16 15:01pm

Sure, a 5.
The whole idea is too bad.
—SA