separate IE instances?

[J Correia]

>Chris Curvey" <ccurvey at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> thanks for all the help.  I'll give the ShellExecute() approach a try
> in the morning.
>
> The short version of what I'm trying to do is....
>
> Have my website login to a 3rd party website on behalf of my customer,
> fill out a form, and submit it.  I'm just using CGI to keep things
> simple, but overlapping requests from different customers are the
> problem.  The 3rd party site uses a lot of javascript, so mechanize
> isn't going to work.  I could use some kind of locking mechanism and
> "single-thread" access to IE, but that won't scale.   I guess the next
> approach would be to queue the requests and have a pool of worker
> processes (running as different users) process the requests and report
> back.

You might have a specific reason for using COM, but if not, have you
considered using the python urllib or urllib2 modules instead?
It should overcome the session cookie / overlapping request issues i think.