Hail and well met, brethern and sisthern(?!); I wrote a perl CGI app (Win32 and IE only) that does everything the users need to do to transmit financial data to a controlling authority, except press the OK button for them. If the app fails for any reason, the user sees a fatal error page explaining how to resolve the error and that the app must close (always something external to the app). A button on that page closes IE using javascript like this: 
print "<P ALIGN=\"CENTER\">";
print "<A HREF=\"javascript:close()\" ALT=\"close this application\">"
+;
print "<IMG SRC=\"$app_exit_button_img\" WIDTH=103 HEIGHT=103></A></P>
+";

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But IE is protected from this type of activity, and the user, after pressing the button, sees a popup window that asks if s/he is really sure. Is it possible to code the close with perlscript instead? I'm thinking I could use Win32::OLE to access the current instance of IE and just close it. Am I pursuing the untamed waterfowl here?

In reply to perlscript to close internet explorer? by doojinsi

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