Utility like NPAPI Spy for ACTIVEX?

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Utility like NPAPI Spy for ACTIVEX?

Hi,

just wondering if there is any open source implementation for an ActiveX web plugins similar in functionality to the one implemented by NPAPI Spy utility available at: http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/modules/plugin/tools/spy/

Thanks,
Giovanni

AFAIK, no such utility exists, however you could probably use Process Monitor or Process Explorer to find most of what you need. If you could give us a more specific idea of what problem you're trying to solve, we may be able to help you better with another solution.

Taxilian 2010-08-03 16:35:34

Hi Taxilian,The goal i'm trying to achieve is to create a plugin that front-end another existing plugin, in particular i want to create a plugin for the windows media player plugin such that mine will be called by firefox/internet explorer before the actual windows media player plugin. Once my plugin gets called, i will do some check on the URL of the media file we want to play and eventually rewrite it. Once the check is done i want to invoke the original plugin. Thanks

Giovanni Meo 2010-08-04 09:51:50

This can be done, though it's tricky. Basically, you'll need to instantiate your activex control and then instantiate the windows media player activex control inside it. Then you can use the same API calls that the browser would to proxy calls from the browser to the internal plugin. If you do it right, it will be transparent. I've done it before, but it took some real work. If you are willing to make it a partial framework that can be contributed to an open source project, I've been wanting to add that feature to FireBreath and I could probably help you get started, at least.

Taxilian 2010-08-04 17:09:23

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