I have a program that I've created for my School District to use to share files & other information in a network.

What I'm trying to do is to create a "Magnet Link" type of button on the intranet site so that users can click on it and open an external program that downloads the file from the server and decompresses it.

**If anyone could provide more information, or help me know what to look for, that'd be great.**

Like how you can click on a link on Curse and it opens it in the client, ect. A popup would appear asking "Are you sure this site may open this application?"