send email that contains link to start IE with parameter

[terrydupuis]

Is it possible to send a link that the recipient can click on and start
Internet Explorer with a specified link?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Is it possible to send a link that the recipient can click on and
start Internet Explorer with a specified link?

Yes. It's called a URL. Just enter whatever URL you'd like and the when
the recipient clicks it, IE will open to that page.

 

[terrydupuis]

Yes. It's called a URL. Just enter whatever URL you'd like and the when
the recipient clicks it, IE will open to that page.

Sorry I should have specified...

I would like to start Internet Explorer with a file URL such as:

file://C:/webs/unix/viewer/file.htm?path=/english/engineer/index.html

BTW, I did try your suggestion on my other thread about getting a link
like this to work and it didn't work. (this whole problem for me is
the inablility to send a link like the above in an email where the
recipient can click it to open in IE, parameter intact).

 

[Brian Tillman]

Sorry I should have specified...

I would like to start Internet Explorer with a file URL such as:

file://C:/webs/unix/viewer/file.htm?path=/english/engineer/index.html

BTW, I did try your suggestion on my other thread about getting a link
like this to work and it didn't work. (this whole problem for me is
the inablility to send a link like the above in an email where the
recipient can click it to open in IE, parameter intact).

Why are you pursuing this in two threads? Stick to one.

 

[terrydupuis]

Because Brian, they are two different questions. The first asks how to
send email containing a link to local html file that with a parameter
that the recipient can click on. The second (this thread) asks how to
start IE with a parameter from a link that a email recipient can click
on.

Two different questions.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Because Brian, they are two different questions. The first asks how
to send email containing a link to local html file that with a
parameter that the recipient can click on. The second (this thread)
asks how to start IE with a parameter from a link that a email
recipient can click on.

Two different questions.

OK. They looked so similar to me. As I said before, though, just including
a URL in a message will start IE with that web site when the recipient
clicks it. I don't see how that doesn't satisfy your second question,
unless the "parameter" to which you refer is an IE command line switch or
something to that effect. In that case, I don't think it's possible.