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woof

2004-03-19, 12:55 pm

Forget what you see in explorer. Here what my scipt saw.

Look for "C:/Documents and Settings/S0007617/Local Settings/History/History.IE5"

"."
/".."
/"desktop.ini"
/"index.dat"
/"MSHist012004021620040223"
/"MSHist012004022320040301"
/"MSHist012004030120040308"
/"MSHist012004030820040309"
/"MSHist012004030920040310"
/"MSHist012004031020040311"
/"MSHist012004031120040312"
/"MSHist012004031220040313"
/"MSHist012004031320040314"

Question is, what's the format? How do I read this.
Is there a module to do this?
If I do a strings on the files I can see the URL text.
pkent

2004-03-19, 12:55 pm

In article <7b21a826.0403130900.2b25fd12@posting.google.com>,
drubnone@yahoo.com (woof) wrote:

> Forget what you see in explorer. Here what my scipt saw.


You might find that there's a method to retrieve the history somehow by
using the Win32::OLE (I think) module to create an Internet Explorer
object which you can then call methods on and inspect properties of. I
haven't got a PC runnign here so I can't check, though. The perl docs
that came with ActivePerl include an OLE browser which seems to let you
see what objects, methods, properties etc. you can access.

P

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woof

2004-03-26, 11:12 pm

got a suggestion at perlmonks to just extract the strings.
Worked great. Thanks

pkent <pkent77tea@yahoo.com.tea> wrote in message news:<pkent77tea-852C01.23425314032004@pth-usenet-02.plus.net>...
> In article <7b21a826.0403130900.2b25fd12@posting.google.com>,
> drubnone@yahoo.com (woof) wrote:
>
>
> You might find that there's a method to retrieve the history somehow by
> using the Win32::OLE (I think) module to create an Internet Explorer
> object which you can then call methods on and inspect properties of. I
> haven't got a PC runnign here so I can't check, though. The perl docs
> that came with ActivePerl include an OLE browser which seems to let you
> see what objects, methods, properties etc. you can access.
>
> P

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