I'm just hacking a little HTML demo where I want my browser to reload the page after running my script.

Back in the time on *u*x it was very easy to send remote commands to netscape/firefox to open an URL.

But now I have to work on Win where the -remote option doesn't work and FF has shut down some interfaces, which results in opening many new tabs or warning that FF is already running.

My search revealed that Win32::OLE should do the trick of sending an F5 to the browser, alas I could only find examples in VBS and dunno how to translate them to Win32::OLE.

see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4680109/how-to-reload-refresh-a-web-page-without-leaving-my-web-development-ide

I'm at the point where hacking the dev environment costs me more than the main project.

Could someone please point me to a working example to send a reload to FF and possible other browsers?

DISCLAIMER: I have the feeling we discussed this before, but a search for lanx and OLE was not successfull.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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