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April 14, 2016April 14, 2016PowerShell, Scripting, Web Technologies

Fix: document.getElementByID doesn’t work issue while using internetexplorer.application COM objects to auto login to Websites in Internet Explorer browser

Scenario: Its a usual web automation requirement to setup auto login capability for certain sites through Internet Explorer browser. Most common implementation involves using internetexplorer.application COM object and accessing the web page HTML elements using DOM methods like getElementByID, getElementsByName, getElementsByTagName, etc., However, there are numerous complaints that while implementing COM automation scripts in VBScript, JavaScript, PowerShell, etc., you’ll find that none of the DOM methods fetches any results nor does auto-login to the website. Further $ie.READYSTATE will return just undefined or null. The general script to wait for IE to finish loading will never proceeds further. In Specific to […]

November 29, 2015November 29, 2015Desktop, Web Technologies, Windows Technologies

FIX: Windows Edge Browser error “Hmm, we can’t reach this page.” for web pages

Scenario: All of sudden, Windows Edge browser starts resulting in error “Hmm, we can’t reach this page.” whenever you browse any web pages. However, you will be able to access the internet through other browsers on the same system. Cause: The Windows Edge browser depends on DNS resolution which is provided by “DNS Client” service. Edge browser fails to load page when “DNS Client” service is disabled on the system. Solution: Enable and start the “DNS Client” service on the system.

November 6, 2015November 6, 2015Repackaging, Visual Basic, Web Technologies

VBScript to automatically launch webpage in Internet Explorer and auto login with username and password

Requirement: You want to have a web page pre-launched with automatic username and password login to the web page. Using VBScript: Using VBScript you can achieve this requirement where you create an Internet Explorer Application object and have complete access/control to it’s elements/content and their properties. Create IE Object: Set ObjIE = CreateObject(“internetexplorer.application”) Launch web page: ObjIE.Navigate “http://localhost/TestApp/User001/Login” Wait for page to load: WScript.Sleep 500 in Do Loop While ObjIE.ReadyState < 4 And ObjIE.Busy Input username: .getElementByID(“userId”).value = “Visitor” Input password: .getElementByID(“password”).value = “password” Click Sign-in Button: .getElementByID(“signIn_OK”).Click Sample Script: ‘===============================================================================’ Script name : Auto-Launch-Login-TestApp-IEBrowser.vbs’ Author : Govardhan Gunnala’ […]