hi

here is the basic idea:

Code:

Private sub nav1()
'turn link logger on

Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
With ie
..Navigate "http://msn.com"
Do Until .ReadyState = 4: DoEvents: Loop
Do While ie.busy: DoEvents: Loop

end with

'turn link logger off
end sub

after running the above code (navigating to msn.com) if you check the
index.dat file a second later, these are all the links that show up related
to navigating to just this one page (msn.com):

http://stj.msn.com/br/om/js/1/s_code.js
http://ads1.msn.com/library/dap.js
http://www.msn.com/
http://st.msn.com/br/hp/en-us/js/6/hptg.js
http://stc.msn.com/br/hp/en-us/css/10/blu.css
http://st.msn.com/br/hp/en-us/js/6/hpb.js
http://stc.msn.com/br/hp/en-us/css/10/override.css
http://stc.msn.com/br/hp/en-us/css/10/ie.css
http://stc.msn.com/br/hp/en-us/css/10/ushp.css
http://st.msn.com/br/hp/en-us/js/6/ieminwidth.js

however, the way i got those links was from another program. i want to have
the code to get those same links and then record them to a text file instead
of having to shell out to an external program to get them.

before you think all i need to do is access IE's index.dat file,
unfortunately there is a catch, and it is because of that catch i am posting
this thread. it turns out that in some cases IE does not properly store the
entire link in its index cache file!

so if a VBA routine is written to access the index.dat file it is a waste of
effort because the index.dat file will often truncate links like .asp?.
..aspx?, .php?, etc and make the suffix .htm instead, which is a real
annoyance.

that means i need to code the VBA to get the links on its own, independently
of IE's index.dat file. there is a litle program that captures the *right*
links, but i dont want to shell out to anothr program, i was hoping to keep
all the code contained in the VBA code.

any ideas on this are appreciated!