[python-win32] Re: Internet Explorer COM issues with XP SP2?

[Steve Davis]

>I'm having the same problem, and I haven't been able to find an answer
>either. The following code demonstrates the problem without using PAMIE:

...

I've spent the past couple days working on this problem independently - I 
discovered it just a few days ago when I returned to some scripts I had 
written to do website testing.  I hadn't used them for a couple months.

The problem seems to be more general than just using fireEvent - 
document.createEventObject() fails with the same error.

I am running Win2k, and I see the same problem.  Being a curious guy, I 
backed out a few patches to IE, and find that after I uninstall windows 
hotfix 889293 and 834707, I can fireEvent() and createEventObject() without 
any problem.  But it's not a very good idea to be running without these 
security updates.

So it seems to me that Microsoft managed to break automation of IE in a 
pretty bad way.  The only documented change I can see that might have caused 
this is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887741

I have no idea how to get this fixed - it appears to be either a bug 
introduced by Microsoft, or a design change.  It does make automated web 
site testing pretty much impossible, unfortunately!

Steve Davis