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I’ve seen download manager programs including IDM taking control of downloads in browsers without having extensions in them and they are calling it (Advanced Browser Integration).
I was wondering if anyone can suggest an approach for a similar situation?
IDM only works on Windows and does his Advanced Browser Integration tricks using
Windows Filtering Platformwhich is a windows specific service.If you want to do something similar on Windows, you should study that platform.
On unix systems, as far as I know, there isn’t anything like the Windows Filtering Platform. Packet filtering and other firewall like functionality happens in the kernel and there are multiple implementations of that: which is running (if any) depends on how the user decided to configure the system (even if
ipfis almost guaranteed to be the used one on BSD and BSD derived systems).On Mac Os X specifically you probably want to check
Network Kernel Extensions. I’m not sure they are sufficient to do what you want to do, but I suspect they are.