Clearing cookies/sessions in _IECreateEmbedded()

[meisandy]

Hi All,

I'm trying to write a small program that automatically logs on to a website using a username and password provided and screenshots the front page (I've checked and this is not against the site's rules).

I have the script working using _IECreateEmbedded(), however for some reason the user stays logged in on the website even after I restart my machine. I will be creating a way to actually sign out of the website as well, however to me this implies that some where cookies/sessions are being stored which I do not wish to happed. So is there any way I can flush the cookies/sessions created by the IE instance or something?

Thanks in advance

[FireFox]

Hi,

Maybe this :

$oIE = _IECreateEmbedded( ...

;dostuff

$oIE.document.cookie = "" ;clear the cookies

Br, FireFox.

[meisandy]

Hi FireFox. Thank you for your answer but unfortunately I've had no luck - I'm still signed in when I restart the script, even if I put it after the object is created, and at the end of the script. :/

[FireFox]

oh. I hope someone more experienced than me on this subject will have a look on your topic.

Br, FireFox.

[FireFox]

A thought - Try to change the expiration date of each cookie you want to delete to now.

[meisandy]

A thought - Try to change the expiration date of each cookie you want to delete to now.

I am not in control of the cookies unfortunately - unless you can do this from within AutoIt, in which case I don't know how.

[FireFox]

The cookies may have the same name. You can get them with the $oIE.document.cookie

[meisandy]

Is there any way that I could output the contents of the $oIE object so that I can check what cookies are actually stored in there because I've tried setting all the cookie names I can think of to 0 and I am still signed in. Unfortunately when I tried just making $oIE.document = "" I received an error saying that the requested action had failed. I just don't understand because surely the variable is overwritten every time the the script starts anyway and so the contents would be discarded!?

Also I can't see that it has much to do with the actual browser because I've just checked on both Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer 64-bit and I'm not signed into the website on either of them.

Edited June 17, 2013 by meisandy

[meisandy]

I'm kind of coming to the conclusion that there is no actual answer to my problem.

Fortunately I no longer require this piece of code but if anyone can figure it out, I'd still like to mark the topic as solved