Navigate2 method in web browser control

[Richard Jonas]

Hi,

I am developing an ActiveX control that incorporates a web browser
control. I am trying to navigate using this, but I am having some
problems.

The following works:
webbrowser1.Navigate2 "http://www.microsoft.com"

This works and shows a directory listing
webbrowser1.Navigate2 "c:/"

This does not work:
webbrowser1.Navigate2 "c:/test.html"

However, entering c:/test.html in the title bar of my stand alone web
browser (IE5.5) works OK.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong here and
how to navigate to "c:/test.html" (I am using VB6 and IE5.5 on NT
4.0)

Thanks,

Richard

rdj AT btopenworld DOT com

[Equinox Tetrachloride]

"Richard Jonas" <r...@dircon.co.uk> wrote:

> This works and shows a directory listing
> webbrowser1.Navigate2 "c:/"
> This does not work:
> webbrowser1.Navigate2 "c:/test.html"
> However, entering c:/test.html in the title bar of my stand alone web
> browser (IE5.5) works OK.

I'm not familiar with the WebBrowser control, but I think you might need to
specify the file: protocol. Just as www.microsoft.com is really
http://www.microsoft.com (the protocol is HTTP), so c:/test.html is really
file:///c:/test.html

Just a suggestion - I can't guarantee it will work.

Eq.

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[mayayana]

Navigate works fine. I've never used Navigate2 but my understanding is that
it's only for
Windows namespace navigation.
WB.Navigate "C:\test.html", 14
will open test.html and not record it in History or check the cache for it.

flags:

navOpenInNewWindow 1 Open the resource or file in a new window.

navNoHistory 2 Do not add the resource or file to the
history list. The new page replaces the current page in the list.

navNoReadFromCache 4 Do not read from the disk cache for this
navigation.

navNoWriteToCache 8 Do not write the results of this navigation to the
disk cache

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[Richard Jonas]

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I have experimented with the
flags as you suggested, and found that if I set the navOpenInNewWindow
bit, the file will open correctly in a new browser (the other settings
make little difference).

I then created an application to contain the control (not the web
browser), and this worked. I think the problem was that I was using a
web browser to debug an ActiveX control that contained a web browser.

Using Navigate or Navigate2 seems to make little difference. Also
thanks to for the suggestion of prefixing the URL with "file://", but
this did not affect things in this case.

Regards,

Richard.

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