>Hmmm.
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>I think my problem is (maybe) that some part of the chain of authentication web pages I'm trying to automate pops open a completely new browser window (outside of my control), and so the session where the safeword authentication happens is not the same as the Foxpro instance of the browser control...
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>Now why it doesn't work that way when I'm running the .PRG instead of the compiled version... I don't know!
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>Any thoughts?

Run it from a shortcut pointing to VFP, with your.prg as parameter, and target directory as the directory where your prg is. Since you're running it internally, it doesn't really have to be an exe, does it?