>>You might be missing the FOR loop around the TRY... CATCH.
>>
>>If this times out, it will simply TRY again (up to 5 times, you don't want to be stuck in an infinite loop if something's wrong with the server).
>
>getting errors with this one - I think Viv has what I am after but thanks for all your help


What kind of errors?

It's the most robust solution, and doesn't need you to change your IE version or whatever, because even with a different HTTP client, it probably isn't the client doing the timeout, and you'll still have the exact same issue you did.

FOR x = 1 to 5
   TRY 
       objHTTP.Send()
       EXIT
   CATCH 
   ENDTRY
ENDFOR

Not sure if that's perfect VFP syntax, but close.