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I have a home-made webserver on my Ubuntu box. If I include an executable ("HelloWorld") in the folder with index.html, then use:
to make it a link, then it gets downloaded when someone clicks and saves it.
When you try to run it, it says "Access Denied." I have to just to be able to run it.

Does anyone know why this happens? Is there a way to fix this?

So the HelloWorld has no file extension?

It actually has a ".exe" extension, but it's not necessary in *nix to have one.

What the Hello World script coded in? And why is there a .exe extensions if you're on Nix?

Yes i realise that. Still i cant quite understand the point here? Excuse my ignorance.
You run nix yet you want to run an .exe?
I assume its for infecting someone or something similar.
Why not try linking to the file with the extension added?
<a href="HelloWorld.exe">Hello World program</a>

Did anyone read my post??

@DAMINK: That's exactly the HTML I used.

@trilobyte: It's C++. Compiled, of course.

Back @ DAMINK: Here is the issue:
I can run the executable fine.
I post it on my webserver.
I download it from myself [or onto any other computer, for that matter]
I can no longer run the downloaded file. It lost its "x" attributes.
???
Profit!

[the "???" must mean: Your Solution] ^_^

Gunna test this now on my Home server and see whats the go here. This should not happen.

I appreciate it, dude.

What do you open .exe files with default? Wine i assume?
I have a seperate issue stopping me from testing this properly on my server.
But here it is if you want to test see if the same problem?

At the bottom of page. Named Hello World Program.
Test that i guess and see if its your system or your server???

I opened it up in Wine OK, I guess . . . well, some "Anry color picker" program came up.

But I was sending a file executable in Linux, and running it in Linux. I set "chmod 777" and/or "chmod a+x" and all that before sending, but [just like when I downloaded your exe] the "x" attributes weren't there.

EDIT: Sorry if I'm confusing; The file was created in Linux and compiled in Linux. It runs fine on a Linux system by running:
or:depending on how I named it. After the file transfer, though, it is not able to be run like that. I have to to make it executable again.

I wonder if it has to do with how I'm sending it over TCP??? I can post my 200 lines of webserver code. It is in C. If you don't know, maybe g4143 would. He seems like he knows his stuff. A regular C-wizard.

EDIT#2: I just realized that you probably don't know who g4143 is. I'm getting my HF and SF mixed up.