Get URL of a IE Cached file in C#

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Hello to all!
I need a thing that may seem strange: I need to get the url of some cached files in IE :D
I've used a FileSystemWatcher to monitor the cache folder so it fires an event when certain files are created. This way I can have full file path, now I have to get their URLs

Basically, you can assume I want my program to write on a file the URL of every .jpg that's created in the Temporary Internet Files folders

Posted 1-Nov-11 3:23am

Fabio Di Peri

Updated 1-Nov-11 4:37am

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Solution 1

you can generate URL of any file, if the file is inside your website directory (virtual directory). otherwise not,

Example:
My project Directory is.
D:\ApplicationDir\MyWebiste1.

root url is http://mywebsiteserver.com/index.aspx (the index.aspx page is inside MyWebsite1 folder, it means its a root)

if the File path is
D:\ApplicationDir\MyWebiste1\Folder1\File.txt

the URL will be http://mywebsiteserver.com/folder1/file.txt

to generate this path programatically, you need to do some string divisions and concatinations. like remove "D:\ApplicationDir\" from file path and concatenate "http://mywebsiteserver.com/" after the remaining file path. replace '\' with '/'.

its a rough idea.. hope it will help you to think a full solution for you...

mark as answer if solves your problem.

Posted 1-Nov-11 3:56am

Pandya Anil

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Fabio Di Peri 1-Nov-11 10:09am

Mine is a standard console application that runs on my pc :D I want it to get the url of a file already present in the IE Cache... Basically, you can assume I want my program to write on a file the URL of every .jpg that's created in the Temporary Internet Files folders

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Fabio Di Peri · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-05T06:02:00

Solution 2

I used wininet.dll to get url of every entry in the cache and then searched for the file I was looking for

Posted 5-Nov-11 6:02am

Fabio Di Peri