interact wih mshtml.dll

thanks for the reply

i found what i was looking for with

IEnumPrivacyRecords::Next Method

but not quite sure how to implemen it in VB. would you happen to know how to do that?

Hi Phil,

thanks again for the reply.

Actually, getting the privacy report record is exactly what i need. in fact, for one application, i am looking to transcribe only *one* particular link and the only place (in IE) that is shows up is inside the privacy report window.

i have been trying to get at that link for at least 8 days now, and nobody seems to know how to access the privacy report and list the links in it, as 'one' of them is the one i need to get to.

i think this is a world record or something. for all the code experts i have asked, even a guy from microsoft (!), nobody has had the answer. i guess nobody has ever had a use for URLs recorded in the IE index.dat file, because if they did have such a need, they'd have discovered a 'quirk', in that the IE index.dat file truncates (at times apparently) links with endings such as .asp?something=123, .aspx?something=123, .php?something=123, and so on, and simply records the page as .htm, and that is what you see in the index.dat file.

for the time being i have to shell out to an external program (firefox), navigate to the web page in question, and then read firefox's history.dat file (which is a breeze) to get the link. talk about inefficient!

one of these days i'll figure it out i guess. i just thought a code guru would know how to do this (and that it was a question that did not take very long to answer). i guess i am sort of in a state of disbelief, in that nobody, even the experts, has ever come across this before. i suppose there is always a first for everything.

anyway, that's the scoop