document updated 18 years ago, on May 23, 2005
I've always wanted to keep some kind of global history of what pages on the internet I go to every
day... The use-cases are a bit weird, I guess, but whatever:
- history of google searches (though I guess this already exists)
- porn visited
- blogs visited
- etc
First thought was to have some sort of winpcap thingy capture all the URLs, but then you get into
questions about which pages the user actually asked for, and which URLs were loaded as children of
parent pages.
Turns out, Firefox's "history.dat" file clears this all up nicely. Okay, it's a bit of a pain in the arse to parse, but it does
have exactly the info I wanted.