gotta confess my limited skills here...
am creating the object with

ox = CREATEOBJECT('internetexplorer.application')

butt, ? ox.Offline always returns .F. whether online of offline.

Please correct me if I'm right or if I'm wrong <vbg>

dg

>Doyle, check if the Offline property helps you here.
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>? ox.Offline
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>From MSDN
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>Offline Property
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>Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that indicates whether the object is currently operating in offline mode.
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>Syntax
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>object.Offline(bOffline) [ = value ]
>Possible Values
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>value Boolean that specifies or receives one of the following values:true The WebBrowser control is offline.
>false Default. The WebBrowser control is not offline.
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>The property is read/write. The property has a default value of false.
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>Remarks
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>In offline mode, the browser is forced to read HTML pages from the local cache rather than from the source document.