anthonyjm
06-07-2002, 06:31 PM
Hello,
I'm a systems admin in a library and I'm somewhat new to scripting, so there may be a much easier way of doing this, but here is my problem.
I'm setting up a system for the children's room to run there computer games from cd images on a server. The system has a web interface that uses perl to build web page based on a database of games. When a child clicks on a game, the perl scripts build a batch file and send it to the computer... here is the problem, I need the computer t run the batch file without popping up with the usual Open... Save... Cancel dialog. If the user selects open, the computer mounts the appropriate image, changes screen resolution, and runs the program.
Security isn’t an issue since the computers will only have access to the internal web server.
I don't know how to force Internet Explorer to open the bat file, instead of the dialog box opening then having to click open. The answer could be as simple as an IE setting I've over looked, a registry setting, the group policy, or even using IEAK to make my own version of IE. I've looked through all, but at this point I'm stuck. If anyone has any ideas about this, please reply, even if it means moving from batch files to another scripting language, but I think the same problem will apply. Thanks
Anthony
I'm a systems admin in a library and I'm somewhat new to scripting, so there may be a much easier way of doing this, but here is my problem.
I'm setting up a system for the children's room to run there computer games from cd images on a server. The system has a web interface that uses perl to build web page based on a database of games. When a child clicks on a game, the perl scripts build a batch file and send it to the computer... here is the problem, I need the computer t run the batch file without popping up with the usual Open... Save... Cancel dialog. If the user selects open, the computer mounts the appropriate image, changes screen resolution, and runs the program.
Security isn’t an issue since the computers will only have access to the internal web server.
I don't know how to force Internet Explorer to open the bat file, instead of the dialog box opening then having to click open. The answer could be as simple as an IE setting I've over looked, a registry setting, the group policy, or even using IEAK to make my own version of IE. I've looked through all, but at this point I'm stuck. If anyone has any ideas about this, please reply, even if it means moving from batch files to another scripting language, but I think the same problem will apply. Thanks
Anthony