It would seemingly be impossible... however, there is this: http://www.sc2mapster.com/forums/general/general-chat/44775-list-new-features-in-2-0-1-hot-s-beta-editor/#p1
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In the new Battle.net interface, you can copy link of certain pages in-game to the clipboard. This include map info pages. So you can copy a link of your map, and give it to other player. Clicking this link would navigate the player to your map info page (If SC2 isn't running, it would launch the StarCraft II first, the player still need to enter name/password to login though).
So it looks like HotS is providing support for you to do this already.
Alluminati Regular ShmoeHi sc2mapster community,
saying "hi" to you because this is my first post here and I'm glad that you pose such a rich source of knowledge here. This post comes with a thought and a question I just had.
Is it possible to start a SC2 game that opens a specific map and has fixed settings out of a webbrowser?
Why I'm asking:
Let's say you want to start a typical SC2 Melee Map on the players computer. His enemy should automatically be a computer player on normal level, playing a random race. You want to do that out of a typical modern web application (written in ajax/php for example).
I doubt there already exists an easy solution for this problem, because theoretically this requires the player's computer's SC2 game to accept a call from the web application. However, especially if SC2 is running already, I can't come up with the way I'd do it.
An application like Teamspeak3 takes links in a specific format as input if you open them with it. It then automatically connects the user to the server described in the link. Could you teach SC2 to do that without "cracking it too hard"?
Guess, this will open up the discussion. Maybe we can find a way to do this.
Imagine what one could do if this problem got solved, you could use this in many places on the web: league platforms, cup platforms, browsergames, whatever people can come up with...
thanks for "thinking in" ~