problem with from win32com.client import Dispatch

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Hello,

If you want some goood examples of reading Web pages and automating
this process
I have a class that wraps all these functions.

http://pamie.sourceforge.net

But for your problem:
You are trying to read the page before it is completely loaded

either add a wait function or a simple sleep ( see below)

from win32com.client import Dispatch
import time

ie = Dispatch("InternetExplorer.Application")

ie.Navigate("https://secure.authorize.net/")
# ie.Visible = True


time.sleep(1)
doc = ie.Document

print doc.body.innerHTML


or with a wait function

from win32com.client import Dispatch
import time


def wait(ie):
    while ie.Busy:
        time.sleep(0.5)
    while ie.Document.readyState != "complete":
        time.sleep(0.5)

ie = Dispatch("InternetExplorer.Application")

ie.Navigate("https://secure.authorize.net/")
# ie.Visible = True

wait(ie)

doc = ie.Document

print doc.body.innerHTML


Enjoy
Robert Marchetti