Need to refresh a single ie7 web tab from command line

I need to create a batch file that will stop a process and then refresh a defined tab in internet explorer 7. Just need some he开发者_开发技巧lp/pointers on the tab refresh part or if it's even possible... I don't want IE to open another tab, and another browser is not an option as the web based program is only compatible with IE. Any ideas? I've experimented with a VBS file with no luck and seeing how it's a web based program I cannot add Java Script to the page...

I know you said you tried VBScript, but it really is the most suitable solution for what you're trying to achieve. See "Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog: How Can I Tell if Any Internet Explorer Windows Are Open to a Particular Web Site?"

See the code:

For i = 0 to objShellWindows.Count - 1
    Set objIE = objShellWindows.Item(i)
    strURL = objIE.LocationURL
    If InStr(strURL, "http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter")Then
        blnFound = True
    End If
Next

Each iteration returns an instance of an open Internet Explorer window's WebBrowser Control. Instead of the blnFound = True try objIE.Refresh2().

You could frame the site, then refresh it from the outer frame with javascript on a timer. This may or may not suit your needs.

This is doable, but it's a little tricky and it requires a constraint: the tab you want to refresh has to have been opened by a Javascript call to window.open and it has to have a name. Let's call that name foo. Then you need to simply load another web page in that same browser session to execute the following Javascript:

window.open('http://other.site.url/etc', 'foo');

This means you need to both know the name of the frame and the target URL. But it's certainly doable.

Doing this from a batch file requires some scripting. In VBScript the code would be something like:

Dim browser
Set browser = CreateObject("SHDocVw.InternetExplorer")
browser.visible = True
browser.navigate("http://mysite.org/refresh.html")

Where refresh.html is the page containing the above Javascript followed by a call to window.close()

Assuming you have control over the web page too...

I'm suprised no one brought up the age old meta refresh.

Rather than do some goofy iframe/javascript magic, or some crazy IE COM object mambo, you could always write a meta refresh tag into your given a certain querystring is passed (or all the time, I don't know what your needs are)

Again, I'm not sure this suits your needs, but it is quick and pretty clean.

put this in your and it will refresh the page once every 60 seconds:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60">