Then you may be forced to take a completely different approach. The captcha will also be cached on your HD, you can get it from there.

>It does, but not a normal one: if you surf to that url you get a new captcha, a different one. And if you refresh, you get another one.
>
>>Doesn't the gaptcha have a URL? I'm pretty sure that it does.
>>
>>>Thank you for your quick reply, bu sorry, it is not as 'easy' as that.
>>>
>>>I want to download a captcha from google and present it in a vfp-form, but the captcha is not so easily isolated by automation. Interactively I can just right-click and can save the image, but I don't know how to do that automatically.
>>>Google-captcha's do not have normal URLs.
>>>
>>>>If you know the URL, you can use GetDataFromURL

>>>>Strtofile(GetDataFromURL('yourURL','yourfilename.jpg')
>>>>
>>>>Function GetDataFromURL
>>>>LPARAMETERS pcUrlName
>>>>DECLARE INTEGER InternetOpen IN wininet.DLL STRING sAgent, ;
>>>>      INTEGER lAccessType, STRING sProxyName, ;
>>>>      STRING sProxyBypass, INTEGER lFlags
>>>>
>>>>DECLARE INTEGER InternetOpenUrl IN wininet.DLL ;
>>>>   INTEGER hInternetSession, STRING sUrl, STRING sHeaders,;
>>>>   INTEGER lHeadersLength, INTEGER lFlags, INTEGER lContext
>>>>
>>>>DECLARE INTEGER InternetReadFile IN wininet.DLL INTEGER hfile, ;
>>>>      STRING @sBuffer, INTEGER lNumberofBytesToRead, INTEGER @lBytesRead
>>>>
>>>>DECLARE short InternetCloseHandle IN wininet.DLL INTEGER hInst
>>>>
>>>>#DEFINE INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG 0
>>>>#DEFINE INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT 1
>>>>#DEFINE INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PROXY 3
>>>>#DEFINE SYNCHRONOUS 0
>>>>#DEFINE INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD 2147483648
>>>>#DEFINE CR CHR(13)
>>>>
>>>>local lsAgent, lhInternetSession, lhUrlFile, llOk, lnOk, lcRetVal, lcReadBuffer, lnBytesRead
>>>>
>>>>* what application is using Internet services?
>>>>lsAgent = "VPF 5.0"
>>>>
>>>>lhInternetSession = InternetOpen( lsAgent, INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG, ;
>>>>      '', '', SYNCHRONOUS)
>>>>
>>>>* debugging line - uncomment to see session handle
>>>>* WAIT WINDOW "Internet session handle: " + LTRIM(STR(hInternetSession))
>>>>
>>>>IF lhInternetSession = 0
>>>>   WAIT WINDOW "Internet session cannot be established" TIME 2
>>>>   RETURN .null.
>>>>ENDIF
>>>>
>>>>lhUrlFile = InternetOpenUrl( lhInternetSession, pcUrlName, '', 0, ;
>>>>                             INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD, 0)
>>>>
>>>>* debugging line - uncomment to see URL handle
>>>>* WAIT WINDOW "URL Handle: " + LTRIM(STR(hUrlFile))
>>>>
>>>>IF lhUrlFile = 0
>>>>   WAIT WINDOW "URL cannot be opened" Timeout 5
>>>>   RETURN .null.
>>>>ENDIF
>>>>
>>>>lcRetVal = ""
>>>>llOk = .t.
>>>>
>>>>DO WHILE llOK
>>>>   * set aside a big buffer
>>>>   lsReadBuffer = SPACE(32767)
>>>>   lnBytesRead = 0
>>>>   lnOK = InternetReadFile( lhUrlFile, @lsReadBuffer, LEN(lsReadBuffer), @lnBytesRead)
>>>>
>>>>   if ( lnBytesRead > 0 )
>>>>      lcRetVal = lcRetVal + left( lsReadBuffer, lnBytesRead )
>>>>   endif
>>>>
>>>>   * error trap - either a read failure or read past eof()
>>>>   llOk = ( lnOK = 1 ) and ( lnBytesRead > 0 )
>>>>ENDDO
>>>>
>>>>* close all the handles we opened
>>>>InternetCloseHandle( lhUrlFile )
>>>>InternetCloseHandle( lhInternetSession )
>>>>
>>>>* return the URL contents
>>>>RETURN lcRetVal
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>>Hello everybody
>>>>>
>>>>>I automate IE9, by:
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>>goIE = CREATEOBJECT("InternetExplorer.Application")
>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>and by goIE.navigate() I navigate to a URL. There is a jpg-image there, which I want to get on my local disk. I do not have the slightest idea...
>>>>>Any help appreciated!
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA
>>>>>
>>>>>Lennert