Usage of IWebBrowser2Ptr

Kamal 1

In VC++ I need to use IWebBrowser2Ptr to navigate to the default browser instead of always to IE. Since IE got discontinued already, Is there any way to use IWebBrowser2Ptr in such a fashion so that it can always navigate to default web browser.

Thank you !

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Castorix31 86,496 Reputation points

2022-10-16T17:37:16.72+00:00

IWebBrowser2 is IE
To navigate to the default browser, you can use ShellExecute
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Kamal 1 Reputation point

2022-10-16T18:03:49.617+00:00

Thanks for your response. Actually I already used ShellExecute earlier to navigate to the default browser. But I could not see any such way to pass "post data" here. But While I was using IWebBrowser2Ptr, I could use its navigate method to pass the "post data".
So can we use ShellExecute method to open the URL as well as pass the "post data". Post data can be in XML format. If so, how can we do that? If not then what could be the alternative approach.

Thanks again !

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Castorix31 86,496 Reputation points

2022-10-17T05:36:25.227+00:00

You cannot post data with ShellExecute
But do you really need to get the default browser ?
Maybe you could use WebView2, which has replaced IE

Kamal 1 Reputation point

2022-10-17T18:32:14.53+00:00

Thanks.
But I really need to get the default browser.
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