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Hello!

I'm trying to make an internet monitoring application to log all the URLs visited by the user. Something like http://www.ematrixsoft.com/website-spy-monitor-software.htm

I tried using a sniffer library as suggested at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/URLLogger.aspx
but had problems with HTTPS URLs because it seems that no only the content of the page is encrypted, but also the URL itself.

Do you have an idea of a "simple" method to catch all the visited URLs from any browser?. I can use a library (Free or not) if necessary.

Thanks.

televes wrote:
Do you have an idea of a "simple" method to catch all the visited URLs from any browser?

No. Encryption is used to prevent exactly what you are trying to do. Since the URL may contain arguments for a GET operation the request and response headers are also encrypted. Attempting to subvert this is typically frowned upon as it becomes a potential exploit for use by Spyware.

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No, not in the middle, in the client machine. In fact, I have discovered a library to do this:
http://www.komodia.com/index.php?page=interceptor.html

You don't need any library.
Just use COM (Notifications)