oIE = createobject('internetexplorer.application') ? oIE.ReadyState oIE.Navigate('www.tek-tips.com') lnStart = seconds() lnTimeOut = 5 do while (oIE.ReadyState # 4) and seconds() - lnStart <= lnTimeOut enddo if oIE.ReadyState = 4 ? oie.document.body.innertext else ? 'timed out' endifYou must take care of midnight in the seconds() - lnStart expression, and notice also that you'll get an HTML even if the address is wrong, you'll get the 404 HTML. Also you can put a Sleep(lnInteval) in the loop to free up the CPU