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Calling a .exe file from a remote server !!

Posted by shams on February 12, 2001 at 1:10 AM

I have a .exe file on my server which I want to call and run on a clients machine through a servlet. I am able to call a normal .exe file thru this but when I run my actual .exe file which is dependent on some .dll files it gives me error that .dll file not found. I have even tried usinng the Runtime class but then the file opens on the server side only Below is my coding:

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class filedownload extends HttpServlet
{
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest sReq ,HttpServletResponse sRes)
throws IOException,ServletException
{

String fileWanted="nowork.exe"
String pathOfFile = "c:/"+ "Downloadablefiles"+"\\" + fileWanted;

File F = new File(pathOfFile);
sRes.setContentType("application/x-msword");

//the next statement is the most IMPORTANT statement
sRes.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=\"" + fileWanted +"\"");

ServletOutputStream out = sRes.getOutputStream();
InputStream in = null;
try
{
in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(F));
int ch;
while ((ch = in.read()) !=-1)
{
out.print((char)ch);
}
}
catch(Exception e)

{
System.out.println(e.toString());
}

finally
{
if (in != null) in.close();
}

}

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