Re-post of an unanswered question, inspired by seeing today a brand-new 
windows XP machine falsely attempt to load a Macromedia Flash installer 
(of all things), in the presence an embedded Real plugin (seems like 
overtones of anti-competitive pre-configuration on the vendor's part). 
The result is that the end-user has no idea whatsoever that they need to 
manually find/install Real Player (or even that it specifically is 
needed) to play the content...

The huge problem here is that there is no documentation about what the 
active-x specific codebase should be:
    
http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/realonescripting/browse/realscript.htm

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Ken Johanson wrote:

> All,
>
> I've searched like mad but cant find *anything* that mentions what 
> Real player's codebase-URL is.. Does this not exist?
>
> For those who may not know, "codebase" is a standard (html) "Object" 
> tag attribute that indicates what URL can be used to download the 
> program-installer binary from (for windows is typically activex but 
> could be java), if the user doesnt already have the program installed 
> (with the also-given classid).. Its similar to the "archive" attribute 
> in a java applet tag.
>
> Both wm (or course) and QT players have a codebase URL supporting 
> them, and it's imperative for any program to effect an auto-install in 
> case it doesnt exist. So I'm surprised that one isnt more prominent on 
> the web or Reals site...
>
> http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=%22real+player%22+codebase+activex&btnG=Search 
>
>
> thanks much,
> ken
>
>
>
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