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i"m working on scraping solution on windows 10 box using access 2010 32 bit. problem ie object somehow reset nothing during execution (error generated on line 17 of below snippet). when running code step step seems work. when visually inspecting explorer window looks expected. doing wrong here ? ideas / suggestions highly appreciated.

public function politseikontroll(dokument string) string dim ie object dim element object dim filenum const url string = "https://www.politsei.ee/et/teenused/e-paringud/dokumendi-kehtivuse-kontroll/" const signature = module_name & "politseikontroll" on error goto err_  if len(trim(dokument)) = 0 or len(trim(dokument)) > 20    politseikontroll = "number on liiga pikk (20 max)"    exit function end if 1 set ie = createobject("internetexplorer.application") 2 ie.visible = true ' 2 prevents url being added history list ' 4 prevents browser reading page disk cache ' 8 prevents url being added disk cache 3 ie.navigate url, 2 + 4 + 8    ' prevent using page local cache 4 while ie.busy , ie.readystate <> 4 ' readystate_complete 5   doevents 6 wend 7 if ie.document nothing     ie.quit 8    set ie = nothing 9    politseikontroll = "serveri vastus puudub" 10 end if 11 set element = ie.document.getelementsbyname("docnumber") 12 if element.length <> 1 13        ie.quit 14     set ie = nothing 15     politseikontroll = "serveri vastuse formaat on vale" 16 end if 17 ie.document.getelementsbyname("docnumber")(0).value = dokument while ie.busy , ie.readystate <> 4 ' readystate_complete   doevents wend 18 set element = ie.document.getelementsbyname("subbutton") 19 if element.length <> 1 20    ie.quit 21    set ie = nothing 22    politseikontroll = "serveri vastuse formaat on vale" 23 end if 24 ie.document.getelementsbyname("subbutton")(0).click 25 while ie.busy , ie.readystate <> 4 26   doevents 27 wend 28    stop 29    ie.quit 30 set ie = nothing 31 doevents  exit_: 32    exit function err_: '    dim eclone new errclone '    eclone.init err, , erl     if not ie nothing         ie.quit         set ie = nothing         doevents     end if '    set eclone = errorhandler.reporterror(eclone, signature) '    if eclone.stopexecution         stop '    end if     resume exit_ end function 

it quit ie, shouldn't use object later, so:

12 if element.length <> 1 13        ie.quit 14     set ie = nothing 15     politseikontroll = "serveri vastuse formaat on vale" 16 end if  if not ie nothing     ie.document.getelementsbyname("docnumber")(0).value = dokument     while ie.busy , ie.readystate <> 4 ' readystate_complete         doevents     wend <snip> 

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