How to get the last current or visited Web URL in Windows?

Question

I'm writing a Windows app. where you can create "links", it is easy to link files or folder (just use the standard dialogs for open files or browse folders), but for linking a Web URL I don't know how to get (from a Windows function or registry key) the current or last visited page.

Maybe something like the recently used files, but referencing web pages (independent of the browser), could be useful.

Answer 1

There is no common browser independent place to look for the last visited pages from what i know(i'm saying this from my experience at computer forensic)

I know there is a place in the registry where explorer saves this info, and probably other browsers as well, you can find this info by using a tool like procmon by sysinternals.

Just enter a site and see what the registry writes down..

Answer 2

This might give you a start:

wrapper class for URL history interface in C#

Answer 3

I found it! (at least for IE)...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs

Then, I should find the equivalent key (or maybe a config file) of the other most common web browsers.