Programmers, Executable file parameters?

[chodadog]

Is it possible to have a file install different information depending on a paramater passed via internet explorer?

For example,
mydomain.com/application.exe?id=john
And that would have different values for certain things instead of..
mydomain.com/application.exe?id=mark

It'd be fantastic if this was possible, let me know.

Cheers

[mike503]

those are standard GET requests in the query string. the application can handle those. unless you're downloading an .exe, and you want a different .exe to be downloaded, then you should put a script in front of it to do the redirection..

[chodadog]

Thanks man, i'll have this guy look into it.

[spanky]

unless I misunderstand, no it is not possible.

are you saying that you want a client to download an executable from a web server with a get vars tagged on to the end of the URI like host.domain.tld/app.exe?key=val and then when that program is run on the client computer it will know what those get vars in the request were? If that's what you are asking then no.

There are solutions to achieve the same end, but not by just tagging the values onto a uri that points to the exe.

cheers