VBS going to a URL in the background

Question

I would like to have my VB script go to a URL in the background. It can open a browser in the background and close it afterwards. The more \"silent\" the better. I had 2 impl

Answer 1

If you're looking for a silent approach I'd suggest to drop the Internet Explorer COM object entirely and go for an XMLHttpRequest object:

myURL = "http://www.google.com/"

Set req = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.6.0")
req.Open "GET", myURL, False
req.Send

WScript.Echo req.ResponseText