Hello, I have a little project where I need to verify the status of some object that gets installed on the clients computers using JavaScript(not inhouse) I've managed to get the code running using PERL with the module Win32::IE::Mechanize with the code pasted below, but I cannot get the output of the command because that is returned to the browser as a javascript:alert("xxx"). 
use Win32::IE::Mechanize; 
my $mech = Win32::IE::Mechanize->new( visible => 0 ); 
$url = 'http://url/to/webpage'; 
$mech->get( $url );
$mech->success or die $mech->response->status_line;
$mech->get('javascript:Install()');
#DO something to hide the resulting msgBox/javascript:alert

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What I am however unable todo, is catch/trap/hide the dialogue returned at the end of the JavaScript which is embedded in the webpage, it calls a function where it writes it to a msgBox. I am not able to hide this and I really want todo this. I've tried putting the IE::Mechanize agent in quiet mode, ignoring errors etc, but it always comes back to tell me using message boxes. Is it possible to trap these? (I am not bound to use Internet Explorer/Windows XP, but was the easiest to kick off this project with)

In reply to fetch HTML page, do javascript, read output from alert/msgbox by TheFlyingCorpse

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