Secure Global Desktop Administration Guide > Applications, documents and hosts > Launching applications from a URL
Secure Global Desktop allows you bypass the browser-based webtop and launch a single application from a URL. This method of launching applications is suitable for running an application from:
Note For the classic webtop, see Launching applications from JavaScript for details.
To do this you can develop your own "application launcher" using Secure Global Desktop web services or you can use the example application provided with Secure Global Desktop.
The URL for using the Secure Global Desktop example application is:
http://server/sgd/launcher.jsp?o=application_name&u=username&p=password&e=true|false
Where server is the DNS name of a Secure Global Desktop host.
The URL has the following parameters:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
o=application_name
| The name of the application object. This does not have to be a TFN name. |
u=username
| The username to use to log in to Secure Global Desktop. |
p=password | The password to use to log in to Secure Global Desktop. |
e=true|false | true means display an edit page where users can override some of the application attributes. false means do not display edit page.
|
Note All of the parameters are optional.
http://boston.indigo-insurance.com/sgd/launcher.jsp?o=Write-o-win&u=indigo&p=purple&e=false
Launches the Write-o-win application using the configuration for the application object defined in Object Manager.
Note If the application is not on the user's webtop, they can't launch the application.
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