Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Can MSIE talk COM?

Author:Dave Winer
Posted:12/12/1998; 11:46:23 AM
Topic:Can MSIE talk COM?
Msg #:1127
Prev/Next:1126 / 1128

Is there any way to get MSIE to talk COM using the syntax of HTTP?

I have a HTTP server running on my laptop. MSIE is also running on the laptop, with no net connection. Using localhost or 127.0.0.1 I can construct URLs to talk to the server:

http://localhost/xxx.html

Using HTTP to connect the two seems inefficient. My server is also a COM server, couldn't MSIE send the same bits to me over COM and wouldn't it be a lot faster?

com://Frontier.exe/xxx.html.

For Mac users, this would be like having a browser send Apple Events to Frontier instead of HTTP requests.

ae://LAND/xxx.html

It could be that I'm missing something or it might already be there.

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