Detect download from browser and get the URL

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I have seen this done before in a download manager but searched and couldn't get how it is done.
How can I detect a browser is about to start downloading, get the URL from it and stop it from continuing? In Win32 C++ please.

Posted 28-May-13 4:35am

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer

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Kucera Jan · Answer 1 · 2013-05-28T06:03:00

Hi,

well I would recomend to use WinPCap library. It is a networking library that will help you sniff the network traffic. You will register to OS, so that you will receive notification about every incoming/outgoing packet and its conent. Then you will just filter out those packet that you want and examin its content.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
J.K.