# Flash getURL to launch an exe

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-geturl-to-launch-an-exe/163454
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**Created:** [September 22, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-geturl-to-launch-an-exe/163454 "2005-09-22T14:46:01Z")
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### Author: ![bananha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@bananha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bananha)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-geturl-to-launch-an-exe/163454/1 "2005-09-22T14:46:01Z")

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hi–

i have a flash animation that i want to act as a link to launch an exe. however, in IE, it’s giving me a yellow band for security issues. if the url is not an exe, it works fine. any thoughts?

basically, in the html, i have the following

[size=1]\<object classid=“clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000” codebase=“[http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0](http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0)” width=“215” height=“161” id=“flashBannerTest” align=“middle” VIEWASTEXT\>  
\<param name=“allowScriptAccess” value=“sameDomain” /\>  
\<param name=“movie” value=“img/test.swf?onTag=javascript:doThis();&clickTag=http://this.exe” /\>  
\<param name=“quality” value=“high” /\>  
\<param name=“bgcolor” value="#ffffff" /\>  
\<embed src=“img/test.swf?onTag=javascript:doThis();&clickTag=http://this.exe” quality=“high” bgcolor="#ffffff" width=“215” height=“161” name=“test” align=“middle” allowScriptAccess=“sameDomain” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=“[http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer](http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer)” /\>  
\</object\>

in the javascript:

function doThis () {

location.href(‘[http://this.exe](http://this.exe)’);

}  
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