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To run a program on the client's machine needs to bypass a couple of security protections. Anso you need to know that path to the executable.<br />
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But the solution in your case might be a lot simpler. <br />
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&lt;a href=&quot;yourspecialfilewiths<wbr />pecialexte<wbr />nsion.acc&quot;<wbr />&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;<br />
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If the user has &quot;Accessor&quot; installed and the extension &quot;acc&quot; is associated with this program, clicking the link will ask the user to download the file, or to open it with &quot;Accessor&quot;.
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To run a program on the client's machine needs to bypass a couple of security protections. Anso you need to know that path to the executable.

But the solution in your case might be a lot simpler.

<a href="yourspecialfilewithspecialextension.acc">click here</a>

If the user has "Accessor" installed and the extension "acc" is associated with this program, clicking the link will ask the user to download the file, or to open it with "Accessor".

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I want the user's computer to call our program we made, lets call it Accessor. &nbsp;We want our website to call this program on the user's computer to parse an XML-like file. &nbsp;I have a feeling it has something to do with Active-X but I am not familiar/good with web. &nbsp;If anybody could give me a good tutorial website or pointers that would be wonderful. &nbsp;Thank you.
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I want the user's computer to call our program we made, lets call it Accessor.  We want our website to call this program on the user's computer to parse an XML-like file.  I have a feeling it has something to do with Active-X but I am not familiar/good with web.  If anybody could give me a good tutorial website or pointers that would be wonderful.  Thank you.

How to call a local program from website?

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Web Browsers

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Web Applications

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