Use some kind of a wrapper control that can create and host instances of any WIndows activex control. There are a couple of such commercial and free controls available on the web. 2) rig up Netscape plugin support yourself(thru XP COM) to your activex control. #define MOSTLY_LEAN_AND_MEAN

You need to make sure that you call CoInitailize for each thread that will create COM objects. Basically this function inidicates to OLE which type of threading model that thread will use when it creates COM objects. Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!

hello, As far as i know the basic design of COM/DCOM is that both client and server should be unaware of the other and as i suppose COM doesnt give any direct interface/method for getting IP address (though it does these things internally). i also think that there wont be any need for a COM component to trace the client. Ganesh.M.Ramaswamy