Execute command with ASP 1

[tvbruwae]

Hi

On one of our intranet pages I would like to have a button that can trigger an application on the webserver. For example, when someone clicks that button a batch file should run on the server.

Is there a way to do this in ASP? I.e. can you write ASP code that runs commands on the Windows machine itself (without having to send anything to the client)?

Best regards,
Tim

 

[DotNetGnat]

use WSH
sample code:

<%
Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = Server.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "notepad.exe"
Set WshShell = Nothing
%>

google for more related stuff...

hope this helps

-DNG

 

[Sheco]

Be careful not to launch any program that requires user interaction to close because it won't appear on the desktop and you'll need to kill it with the task manager.

 

[tvbruwae]

It does, thanks a lot!

 

[tvbruwae]

Posted at the same time ;-)

The script works. It runs a batch file containing some SQL Server export commands, so basically it does not impose security risks.