Create URL of EXE w/ Command Line Parameter

[SLeeP-Dep'D]

I created an EXE that will be stored at a shared location on my company's intranet. I want to add a hyperlink to HTML e-mails for employees to run this EXE. However, the EXE needs a pipe-delimited command line parameter and I can't seem to get that working in the URL. Also, there could be a space in the command line parameter.

To run the program from a command line I would use the following:

\\SERVER1\MyEXE.exe Param1|Param2|Param3 MightHaveASpace

This is what I tried in the HTML e-mail and it wouldn't work:

...
<A href="file://\\SERVER1\MyEXE.exe?Param1|Param2|Param3 MightHaveASpace>Run MyEXE</A>
...

Thanks.

[Maven]

Originally posted by SLeeP-Dep'D
I created an EXE that will be stored at a shared location on my company's intranet. I want to add a hyperlink to HTML e-mails for employees to run this EXE. However, the EXE needs a pipe-delimited command line parameter and I can't seem to get that working in the URL. Also, there could be a space in the command line parameter.

To run the program from a command line I would use the following:

\\SERVER1\MyEXE.exe Param1|Param2|Param3 MightHaveASpace

This is what I tried in the HTML e-mail and it wouldn't work:

...
<A href="file://\\SERVER1\MyEXE.exe?Param1|Param2|Param3 MightHaveASpace>Run MyEXE</A>
...

Thanks.

You have to link to it from a web clients point of view. like www.mydomain.com/my.exe?paramhere

You'll also have to change your command line parser to handle url encoding.

[CornedBee]

The pipe character has a special meaning in command lines. Have you ever run the exe you're speaking of?

Besides, in file: URLs all slashes are forward:
file:///SERVER1/MyEXE.exe