I had a lot of weird ideas about this code like using fork, but after looking at it for a while I settled on simply changing the following: 

...

my $IE;
my $IETimeout = 60;

my $timeAtStart; #new global var
...
sub IENavigate( $ ) {
    my $url = shift;
    my $seconds = 0;
    $timeAtStart = time unless ($timeAtStart);
    print "IENavigate $url\n";
    alarm $IETimeout;
    $IE->navigate($url);
    Win32::OLE->MessageLoop();
     
    print "Finished Blocking\n";
    return;
}

sub IEEvent(){
    my ($Obj,$Event,@Args) = @_;
    if (($IETimeout) && ($timeAtStart) && (time > ($timeAtStart + $IET
+imeout) )) 

{&IEAlarm(17)};
    print "IEEvent '$Event' @ " . time . qq|\n|;
}

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Which produces, not surprisingly... 

IEEvent 'StatusTextChange' @ 1131174480
IEEvent 'CommandStateChange' @ 1131174480
IEEvent 'StatusTextChange' @ 1131174480
IEEvent 'StatusTextChange' @ 1131174480
IEEvent 'CommandStateChange' @ 1131174480
IEEvent 'StatusTextChange' @ 1131174480
...
IEEvent 'CommandStateChange' @ 1131174520
IEEvent 'CommandStateChange' @ 1131174520
IEAlarm 17
IEEvent 'CommandStateChange' @ 1131174521
Finished Blocking

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There are some strange things in this code like: 
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at foo.pl li
+ne 37.
...
#which is
==36==    my $seconds = IENavigate( $_ );
==37==    print "took $seconds\n";

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when IENavigate doesn't return anything...? At any rate, if you are looking to see how long it takes to load pages, etc. wouldn't you be better served with LWP::Simple and Benchmark or something?

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In reply to Re^2: Win32::OLE and timeout by InfiniteSilence
in thread Win32::OLE and timeout by puff

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