From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-03-11T08:22:14+09:00
Subject: Killing an WIN32OLE IE Object


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I've written a nifty little script that loads a list of URLs in IE, and
times how long it takes to download and render them (and all their
images).  There are two ways to do this, spawn a new IE for every link,
or reuse the same IE.

If I spawn a new IE every time, the IE that I call #Quit on doesn't
die until the script terminates, which seems to cause OLE runtime
errors about invoking a synchronous call before an asynchronous one
completes (in navigate()).  If I sleep, then IE freezes also, so
I'm left with just retrying until I get lucky.

If I reuse the same IE every time, the cache never seems to get
cleared, so the page load time ends up being totally bogus.  (I'm
guessing IE doesn't release all of its filehandles...)

To get to the point, how can I force a WIN32OLE object to wait until a
method completes properly? (specifically ie.quit)

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