Xmlhttp request is raising an Access Denied error

Question

The following Excel macro, which is making an xmlhttp request to this webpage to retrieve some values at a second stage, has worked normally in VBA until some time ago:

Answer 1

add "www" after "https://" in your custom Link, Like this:

XMLPage.Open "GET", "https://www.x-rates.com/table/?from=GBP&amount=3", False    
XMLPage.send

Answer 2

Update

Sub WebReq()

link = "http://it.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^FCHI&ql=10" & Str(Rnd())
Set htm = CreateObject("htmlFile")
Dim objHttp

    Set objHttp = CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP")
    objHttp.Open "GET", link, False

    objHttp.Send
    htm.body.innerhtml = objHttp.responsetext
    Set objHttp = Nothing
End Sub

Answer 3

access denied is IE issue

internet options > security tab > custom security level > Miscellaneous >Access data sources across domains > enable

Answer 4

In my case the user didn't have AD permissions to the proxy server on our corporate network. (Simple oversight when setting up the user.) Adding the missing security group fixed the problem for the user.

Answer 5

I was able to fix it by changing the link being passed from being "http://" to "https://"

The site I was pulling had upgraded and trying to pull the data using the unsecured link was failing. Works great now (no code change required.

Answer 6

i found that, in my case, changing http to https fixed the access denied problem. i can only assume that the website somehow made a change and didn't tell anyone