Ron Adam wrote: > Bengt Richter wrote: > > > <indulging what="my penchant for seeking the general behind the specific > > ;-)"
There is a thing called "Asynchronous pluggable protocol". It is Microsoft's technology (don't flame me now): """ Asynchronous pluggable protocols enable developers to create pluggable protocol handlers, MIME filters, and namespace handlers that work with Microsoft® Internet Explorer... Applications can use pluggable protocol handlers to handle a custom Uniform Resource Locator (URL) protocol scheme or filter data for a designated MIME type. """ In other words you can develop you own plugin which would allow Internet Explorer to open URLs like "rar://c/my/doc/book.rar". (I was going to write plugin for .rar in order to enable offsite browsing of downloaded portions of web sites, all from an archive file). You could give it a look. If only to see that it is Mycrosofthonic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/pluggable/overview/aplugprot_overviews_entry.asp. Qvx -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
