Application Launch from Web Page in Internet Explorer?

[SortaNorth]

Help!

How do you launch an application from within a web page using Internet
Explorer?

In my intranet I have several forms that were developed which run under
Adobe's Form Client program. (filename.xft). I want to create a standard
web page that simply hyperlinks to the filename.xft. Clicking the hyperlink
should launch the Form Client Program and open the filename.xft in the
program. What do I do to Internet Explorer to get it to do this?

Simply writing a typical hyperlink works fine in all other browsers except
for Internet Explorer, but all the client computers in our intranet only run
Internet Explorer, so I need to figure out how to make this work.

Thanks for any information.
Dick Marcum
(e-mail address removed)

 

[John Fox]

SortaNorth,
I would think that <a
href="http://local.net/file1.xft>File 1</a> would launch
the app to open the file IF and ONLY IF each machine 1)
has the app installed 2) the app has a browser plug-in and
3) the .xft file is associated with the correct app.

John

 

[SortaNorth]

John,

In this case (1)each machine has the app installed.
(2)A browser plug-in is not required.
(3)The file association with the app is a simple matter to accomplish with
all browsers except Internet Explorer. In fact I didn't even have to set it
up on Mozilla, Firebird or Opera, it just worked.

I guess what I need to figure out is how to effect the file association with
Internet Explorer. I have seen some references that suggest you have to
tweak the registry of Windows to make this happen, but I haven't yet figured
out how.

Thanks for taking the time to respond!
Dick

The actual file used here is really just an xml file keyed to work with the