QTP - Getting current browser URL

I'm going to show and explain how to get current URL which is opened in a browser.
For example, how to get URL "http://motevich.blogspot.com" from the following browser:

There are two solutions:

1. Using GetROProperty("URL") method (run-time object property)
2. Using "URL" property of "Object" (IE DOM Object)

Let's consider both variants.

1. GetRoProperty("URL") method (run-time object property)
   
   GetRoProperty function reads properties of a run-time object in an application.
   If you open QTP Help on GetRoProperty function, you 'll see that this function can work with all objects:
   So, for example:
   
   • to check whether a link is visible or not, use:
     Browser("bname").Page("pname").Link("lname").GetROProperty("visible")
     
   • to get a page's title, use:
     Browser("bname").Page("pname").GetROProperty("title")
   • to check whether a window is maximized, use:
     Window("wname").GetROProperty("maximized")
     
   • to get width of WebButton, use:
     Browser("bname").Page("pname").WebButton("btname").GetROProperty("width")
     
   Others properties are described in QTP Help.
   
   In our case, to get URL of the current WebPage, we will use:
   
   Browser("bname").Page("pname").GetRoProperty("URL")
   This is a sample QTP script:
   
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2. "URL" property of "Object" (IE DOM Object)
   
   The sample syntax is:
   
   Browser("bname").Page("pname").Object.URL
   
   What is "Object" in the above statement?
   
   Actually, this is Internet Explorer Document Object Model (DOM) Object.
   You can read more about DOM here and here.
   Also, I recommend to read this interested article on working with IE DOM from Visual Basic.
   
   Tip: You can use DOM Object when running QTP test on Internet Explorer only!
   
   To make the long story short, I can say that using Object property you can get almost all elements and properties from Web page.
   
   Thus, I use URL property of Internet Explorer's DOM Object.
   All properties, collections, and methods of DOM Object are described in this MSDN article.
   
   Tip: The number of properties, accessed via DOM Object, is more bigger, than properties accessed via GetROProperty method.
   
   So, the result of above code is:
   
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Summary:
Two ways were discussed:

1. GetROProperty("URL") (run-time object property)
2. "URL" property of "Object" (IE DOM Object)

GetROProperty method supports both IE & FireFox, but IE DOM Object provides more accessible properties and methods.
Both can get URL of the current Web page.

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