Serving up an executable program with Apache?

[Xayd]

Here's my dilemma...

Co. I work for has software which runs on a couple of *.ini files and one *.dll under Win95/98/NT/2000. It can run multiple instances over a LAN with TCP/IP just fine, but we have a customer who wants to set the program itself up on a webserver, to be used remotely.

Can this hairbrained idea work?

With default Apache settings except for all clients having full access to all subdirectories, the program will attempt to launch but it can't find DLL's or INI's in IE. IE is apparently trying to cache these files, since when they're copied to the cache folder for IE the program works.

Anyone know of a way to disable caching and force the browser to look at the current directory on the webserver to run an app from its remote location?

Stupid idea?

Using the Apache release for Win32, since the customer in question wants to run this on his Win2000 machine if we get it working. Any advice appreciated.

Xayd