_IELodWait() occasionally never loads

[lionfaggot]

so, i got this bot yeah? and it goes fine for a while but occasionally it seems like ieloadwait never triggers so the script just hangs forcing me to either f5 and reload the page in ie (at which point the script usually continues) or until i restart the script completely. seriously perplexing issue. is this a bug in wininet? or is there something i can do to remedy this?

[water]

What do you mean by "bot"? Can you please elaborate? What does your script do?

[lionfaggot]

well, it just automates a set of forms. the script works. just occasionally ieloadwait never finishes. upon reading further into the help file i found a function to set the load timeout. this seems to be working now. thanks anyway

[Kammamuri]

the default timeout should be 5 min (300000ms), so even if you leave it blank it should timeout after that much time. However, it happened to me too that it didn't time out at all with the default value

edit: in http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_IELoadWaitTimeout.htm a zero is missing in the Remarks section

Edited July 6, 2013 by Kammamuri

[lionfaggot]

im gonna be straight up, in some ways wininet is an alright library, but honestly? microsoft did a pretty sloppy job of putting it together. for instance, with _IEFormElementRadioSelect and _IEFormElementCheckBoxSelect. now note, both of these form elements work pretty much the same for the most part. so right. why with ie.au3 do i have different parameters for these two functions. i can understand the two are different object types but the same problem remains, they should have the same set of parameters as theyre pretty much the same thing

[lionfaggot]

i mean you can click the forms by their object names. which achieves the same result for both. still, wininet is kind of a perplexing library in some ways. been going through the UDF and getting to know way more than i needed about wininet