Thread: Is there any way to control all browsers functionality using java program ?

Originally Posted by KevinWorkman

The short answer to this is "no".

I will disagree Kevin. I respect your knowledge and experience but i guess we can do this.
What OP wants is actually the functionality of all browsers in his/her own created application(i guess).
His/Her description is, a user submits a request to any browser and browser will call his/her java application. So, the only issue is a call from browser to user application. I know browsers are not open source so you can't modify browser's code but is there any logs build by the browsers, where they keep history? I hope there will be, so by simply parsing the log file, one can accomplish this task.

I want Kevin to respond here, as i want his answer too over this.

Thanks

Can please tell me which language suitable for this.

Originally Posted by vijay_p

Can please tell me which language suitable for this.

Well, i didn't work over such functionality yet, but if i would have to write, i will always welcome java to write. I don't have the concepts for now, but i hope that for making efforts, one can find solutions to any problem.

Originally Posted by KevinWorkman

You might be understanding the OP better than I am, but that's not how I took his requirements. It sounds like what he wants is a Java program that runs that intercepts browser requests and displays a message (and redirects/blocks the browser) when appropriate. That's probably not possible in Java, might be extremely hard in Java, and is probably definitely not a job for Java in either case.

But even going your route, I'm not sure how he'd do that with Java. The description "a user submits a request to any browser and browser will call his/her java application" is not exactly trivial. Going through some log files miiiiight be a way to go, but I don't think it's what the OP wants- and I don't think it will work even if it is what he wants.

Just my two cents though. Feel free to prove me wrong, as I'd be quite impressed/scared if somebody did this in pure Java.

Definitely a dare. I'm going to start working on that this weekend.

Originally Posted by Norm

How about a proxy server. I wrote a simple one years ago and have used it many times with various browsers to filter what the browser does. It must be setup using each browser's options menu item.

I used it when I was on a dial-up connection and didn't want the browser to try going online when I had the files locally. There are links in the API doc that go to the tutorial. when I was reading the local API docs and clicked on a tutorial link the server redirected to files on my computer.
From my server's .ini file:

#Define Redirects
RedirectCnt=3
Redirect1.site=http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial
Redirect1.local=[DOCS_HOME]\\Java\\JavaTutorial\\
Redirect2.site=http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsguide
Redirect2.local=[DEV_HOME]\\Norms\\JavaScript\\GuideJS13\\
Redirect3.site=http://java.sun.com/javase/6/
Redirect3.local=E:\\Java\\Java-1_6_0\\

Thank you for replying
While using proxy, we have to configure proxy configurations manually in browser settings.
without using manual configuration is there any possibility for using proxy?

Originally Posted by KevinWorkman

You might be understanding the OP better than I am, but that's not how I took his requirements. It sounds like what he wants is a Java program that runs that intercepts browser requests and displays a message (and redirects/blocks the browser) when appropriate. That's probably not possible in Java, might be extremely hard in Java, and is probably definitely not a job for Java in either case.

But even going your route, I'm not sure how he'd do that with Java. The description "a user submits a request to any browser and browser will call his/her java application" is not exactly trivial. Going through some log files miiiiight be a way to go, but I don't think it's what the OP wants- and I don't think it will work even if it is what he wants.

Just my two cents though. Feel free to prove me wrong, as I'd be quite impressed/scared if somebody did this in pure Java.

It's not to prove your wrong but to discuss with the java legends, any possbility for trying this.
Well, let me get finished with my on going project and for sure i will revert my eyes to implement this. I will not work to prove you wrong but to prove that thing wrong that it's not the java work to do this. What i hope is, Java can do anything, what you can think.

After doing some research, I think he wants the equivalent of parental controls on the PC, while there are programs to do this, they require overriding native computer methods; which I am certain you cannot do with java.The only way that this is possible would be installing another dll file into your computer, but it would undoubtedly lag your computer because for it to work in all browsers you would have to check every outgoing message.

The proxy solution does seem best in my mind, but it would require work from the user. I think that parental controls is practically a virus. (And could easily become one)

Originally Posted by Tjstretch

The proxy solution does seem best in my mind, but it would require work from the user. I think that parental controls is practically a virus. (And could easily become one)

while using proxy , i think we have to configure proxy configurations manually in browser. In this case if we remove or change proxy settings on browser my application wont work.

Any other way to configure proxy configuration using java program.