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Is it possible to communicate with a desktop application from browser?
I want to do something like this,
Let’s say there is a button in my web application with a URL to a data source and when button is clicked desktop application opens and get that data source URL and process data with desktop application.
Is it difficult to do such thing? Any examples?
You will need to have something running on the deskop, like a server, and make a request to it for the server to open up an application. You could do it with a Node.js. Of course that requires the server to be running on the client’s desktop.
The alternative would be to make a browser extension / plugin, and have people install that. Those extensions could probably launch an application on the desktop.