I hope Lennert read your message.

>Yeah that is the behavior that you should see :-) Otherwise it would be potentially much easier to spoof a Captcha - it has to be tied to the page.
>
>I suppose the only way to do this then is to roam through the cache and try to find it, but ultimately I think that approach will not work very well due to the naming issues.
>
>The better approach IMHO is to display the captcha in a browser window if possible and do the validation directly through the Web browser. The reason CAPTCHAs exist is exactly to avoid any type of automation even if Lennard is trying to go and manually pass through the CAPTCHA value from a separate validation.
>
>Not going through the Web site will always be a fickle process because the URLs or logic might change to easily if Google detects tampering or working around the Captcha.
>
>
>+++ Rick ---
>
>
>
>>>>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.
>>
>>According to Lennert the problem is that when he tries to download the captcha using my code, the captcha is refreshed. In other words he gets a new captcha instead of the old one.
>>
>>>The captcha will be an image element on the page and you can select it in the DOM. If it has an ID you can do:
>>>
>>>

>>>loImg = oBrowser.document.getElementById("imgCatpcha")
>>>lcUrl = loImg.src
>>>
>>>*** Retrieve the image and store to disk
>>>Do wwHttp
>>>loHttp = CREATEBOBJECT("wwHttp")
>>>
>>>*** Save output directly to file
>>>loHttp.HttpGet(lcUrl,"","","c:\temp\captchaimage.jpg")
>>>

>>>
>>>Then you can use the code Tore posted or some other mechanism like the wwHttp code I use above to retrieve the data using HTTP.
>>>
>>>+++ Rick ---
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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