I just see the source code of watir's ie.wait().
according to your description,the doc should load completely.
i think there maybe a activex control that can't be loaded or not loaded.
please check the page code if it like this: 'new activex()'.
at last,you can test it directly again but not
Windy, thanks a bunch.
toutval is currently set to 30s and 40s respectively. The url is an
internal test page with just 9 images in it. I tested the url manually
from the same machine and it loads within 1-2s. I should say that we
are actually using watir+browser to test a proxy server so there is