HTA - Hypertext Applications - Still Supported? If so...

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Anthony Williams

Hi all,

We're currently working on encapsualating a .NET web application inside of a
hypertext application. The web application is based on the DotNetNuke
framework, and seems to work well, except for the fact that it doesn't seem
able to set or retrieve cookies.

Is anyone in here able to share some insight as to why this might be? Are
there limitations of what HTAs can be used for? More importantly, has anyone
in here been able to get a .NET web app working inside of an HTA?

Any help would be great.

Cheers,
Anth
 
..hta is encoded in the shwdocvw.dll library as an unsafe file and so IE will
normally not download, cache or execute a file with a hta extension. You can
change this behaviour with entries in the registry to either of the
following keys

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\UnsafeFiles\Exclude
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\UnsafeFiles\Include

Do a web search on the keyword 'UnsafeFiles' in this forum or google to find
out more.
 
Rob,

Cheers for the answer but the HTA is actually on everyone's desktop - we've
created a custom installer which will install the application into the
user's Start Menu, but it's the content we're calling FROM the HTA that's
causing problems.

Does this behaviour extend to framesets and pages called from within the HTA
itself?

Cheers,
Anth
 
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