Wise ones, I abase myself.

I may be pushing my luck with this one, but here's what I'm trying to do:

I have an intranet page I do work on. I want to use OLE to link to an open page & pull the HTML/TEXT for use elsewhere. I hope to use the existing window so I'm not cluttering my screen with new instances. The URL is programatically generated gibberish so I can't use GET calls to pull the data down.

To complicate things the only libraries I have available are the ones that come with Active State Perl (5.8.0 build at least).

I found this thread, which let me get a handle to the document, but I can't find any way to get at the HTML or Text. I've had a little success prototyping a solution in VBA (blech), but no luck with perl. Has anyone done this before?

In reply to Scrape an existing IE Window? by rsilvergun

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