installer within the browser

[win]

Hi All,

Is it possible to create an active X based installer that can run within the
browser ? I have tried using the msistuff.exe based approach but it doesnt
run within the browser.

What I would like is the installer itself to run within the browser. Maybe
ActiveX based ??

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Win

 

[Phil Wilson]

I wouldn't go this way. You'd need to get the control registered on the
client system, and things like that are non-trivial as security in browsers
gets tighter. Also you'd probably be asking your clients to lower their
browser security settings to do all this. The other browser issue is Vista,
MSI 4.0 and UAC - it's not clear to me how a browser interacts with UAC when
trying to launch a setup from within the browser.

I think the standard model is likely to be to download an executable and run
it. Certificates can be used to show that the downloaded code is authentic,
and the exe can download and launch the MSI setup, and that can be signed
too.