Run Bat file on Client machine

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Hi,
I want to run a bat(exe) file on client machine on button click event by using ASP.net(javascript/ requireJS) without using activeX control.

Regards,
Saad

Posted 20-Jan-15 5:25am

saad.raza

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-01-20T05:38:00

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You can't.
You can do it with ActiveX, but even that doesn't work except in a very few circumstances.

This is deliberate: if you could run a batch file, so could malicious sites. And you can imagine what their batch files would start doing! So for security, Javascript cannot do it.

Posted 20-Jan-15 5:38am

OriginalGriff

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saad.raza 20-Jan-15 11:46am

Thanks I know that's the issue but I read an article on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20643470/execute-a-command-line-binary-in-node-js

they are using spawn = require('child_process').spawn; I am unable to do this got some error can you please help me in this regards.
Thanks in Advance :)

glen205 20-Jan-15 11:57am

Is it possible that node.js is a server-side javascript framework/language - and therefore examples of its usage are in the context of server-side, not client-side execution?

I may have misunderstood as my experience with node.js is only second-hand. My colleague develops using node.js, jade, npm and I get the feeling that whilst your client-side view can have javascript in it (like any html page), the actual "node.js" portion of this concept is server-side execution?

saad.raza 20-Jan-15 12:13pm

Thanks