Is there a way of opening a seperate program with a hyperlink or button in HTML?<br />
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I want to open a telnet session if users click on a button.<br />
Is this possible?<!--content-->no, not possible<!--content-->It's only possible if you know for sure the path to the executable file that starts the application on every computer of every user that is going to be clicking that button. Not impossible, but very impractable, awkward, and highly improbable.<br />
About the only way you could get it to work is if you were on a company intranet and insist on having the executable file on EVERYBODY's desktop and use "a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"C:\desktop\telnet.exe" as your path. <br />
Of course, it opens the application (after a prompt), but doesn't connect unless everybody has an "auto-connect on opening" type of feature in the application.<br />
Not very likely. Seen it done for about two weeks. The idea lasted longer as a source of lunchroom jokes.
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Food for thought though.<!--content-->Half these IT users don't even know what telnet is let alone locate where it is. However this tool is for just for the IT group that consists of 8 people. We all run WIN2000<br />
so the path to telnet is the same for everyone.<br />
C:\WINNT\system32\telnet.exe<!--content-->Umm, yes you can!<br />
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A link like:<br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"http://somewhere.over.there.com/somepage.html" title="opens a HTTP session">HTTP link to an HTML page somewhere</a><br />
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can be altered to:<br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"ftp://somewhere.over.there.com/somefile.zip" title="opens an FTP session">FTP link to a file somewhere else</a><br />
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or even to:<br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"telnet://some.telnet.over.there.com/" title="opens a TELNET session">TELNET link to a server somewhere</a><br />
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You'll need to play with the syntax a little.<!--content-->here is a working example of a telnet session via a hyper link:<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="telnet://towel.blinkinlights.nl">telnet://towel.blinkinlights.nl</a><!-- m --> (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl">telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl</a><!-- m -->)<!--content-->Thanks Kevin, for the working link.<br />
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This time Scoutt is wrong (rare event).<br />
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That link is quite funny. It opens in HyperTerminal here. Someone must have spent ages compiling that.<!--content-->Maybe scoutt was wrong maybe not. The question was poorly worded.<!--content-->out of 8000+ posts I have been wrong only once, well twice now
LOL but in all fairness, if I went to a website and they ran something off my hard drive it would piss me off. I didn't realize it was for the IntrAnet. <br />
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so if that the case then I could run format.com on win98 machines. do you think that will work? I know where it is at and it is the same place for anybody that has win95/98.<!--content-->
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I want to open a telnet session if users click on a button.<br />
Is this possible?<!--content-->no, not possible<!--content-->It's only possible if you know for sure the path to the executable file that starts the application on every computer of every user that is going to be clicking that button. Not impossible, but very impractable, awkward, and highly improbable.<br />
About the only way you could get it to work is if you were on a company intranet and insist on having the executable file on EVERYBODY's desktop and use "a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"C:\desktop\telnet.exe" as your path. <br />
Of course, it opens the application (after a prompt), but doesn't connect unless everybody has an "auto-connect on opening" type of feature in the application.<br />
Not very likely. Seen it done for about two weeks. The idea lasted longer as a source of lunchroom jokes.
<br />Food for thought though.<!--content-->Half these IT users don't even know what telnet is let alone locate where it is. However this tool is for just for the IT group that consists of 8 people. We all run WIN2000<br />
so the path to telnet is the same for everyone.<br />
C:\WINNT\system32\telnet.exe<!--content-->Umm, yes you can!<br />
<br />
<br />
A link like:<br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"http://somewhere.over.there.com/somepage.html" title="opens a HTTP session">HTTP link to an HTML page somewhere</a><br />
<br />
can be altered to:<br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"ftp://somewhere.over.there.com/somefile.zip" title="opens an FTP session">FTP link to a file somewhere else</a><br />
<br />
or even to:<br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"telnet://some.telnet.over.there.com/" title="opens a TELNET session">TELNET link to a server somewhere</a><br />
<br />
You'll need to play with the syntax a little.<!--content-->here is a working example of a telnet session via a hyper link:<br />
<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="telnet://towel.blinkinlights.nl">telnet://towel.blinkinlights.nl</a><!-- m --> (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl">telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl</a><!-- m -->)<!--content-->Thanks Kevin, for the working link.<br />
<br />
This time Scoutt is wrong (rare event).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
That link is quite funny. It opens in HyperTerminal here. Someone must have spent ages compiling that.<!--content-->Maybe scoutt was wrong maybe not. The question was poorly worded.<!--content-->out of 8000+ posts I have been wrong only once, well twice now
LOL but in all fairness, if I went to a website and they ran something off my hard drive it would piss me off. I didn't realize it was for the IntrAnet. <br /><br />
so if that the case then I could run format.com on win98 machines. do you think that will work? I know where it is at and it is the same place for anybody that has win95/98.<!--content-->