Getting the URL

Hi!

Is there a way to get the URL when the user opens a web page with a common web browser?

Thanks.

Access Explorer and Internet Explorer in C# to Find Web Pages and Directories « OmegaMan's Musings

whoa that was neat, and it works, thanks . Now the problem is for other browsers like Chrome and Firefox. How to do the same thing with other browsers .

You can use this project which will allow you to use Dynamic Data Exchange with all the browsers. Then you'd use code like

Code:

using NDde.Client;
... rest of your class ...
    DdeClient dde = new DdeClient("Firefox", "WWW_GetWindowInfo");
    dde.Connect();
    string url = dde.Request("URL", int.MaxValue);
    dde.Disconnect();

This will work with "IExplore", "Netscape", "Mosaic", "Netscp6", "Mozilla", "Firefox" at the least, don't see any reason why it wouldn't work with Chrome, but you may have to play around with the library if Google didn't use "Chrome" as the DDE name.

Oh, and compared to the IE method above this is really slow.