winhttprequest

I'm using WinHTTP in Access 2007 VBA to fetch some list of items requiring a cookie login credential account . First I login through https://www.example.com/login.php with this: Dim strCookie As String, strResponse As String, _ strUrl As String ' Dim xobj As Object ' Set xobj = New WinHttp.WinHttpRequest ' strUrl = "https://www.example.com/login.php" xobj.Open "POST", strUrl, False xobj.SetRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)" xobj.SetRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" xobj.Send "username=johndoe2&password=mypassword" '

I have access to an API. The API takes an XML post as input and then returns an XML response with the relevant data. I want to Send the HTTP Post to the Server (Authentication and Request will be sent together) Receive the response (One of the options to be returned is CSV or XML) Insert the data into the appropriate rows and columns and then perform data analysis using pivot tables. I don't have a programming background in excel but am comfortable with different web scripting languages, HTML, CSS, Javascript etc. Any ideas? If you need to send your input xml as the message body here is how

PayPal sandbox just recently restricted to TLS 1.2 connection. This makes our site stop working with PayPal sandbox although it stills work with the production PayPal. In the future the production PayPal will have the same restriction. We're using classic ASP and Microsoft WinHTTP.WinHTTPRequest.5.1 component for communication with PayPal. Here's the code below. objHttp.StatusText returns "Bad Request". We're on Windows Server 2008 R2. I tried to use MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0 instead, but it only works on my Windows 8.1 development machine, not on our Windows Server 2008 R2. Although MSXML2

The question asked here: How can I send an HTTP POST request to a server from Excel using VBA? is almost exactly what I was looking for except that I am trying to send a number of files to the server. I googled further and found How do I upload a zip file via HTTP post using VBA? This was also good, but pretty discouraging - it seems like a lot of work (not just making an HTML form here...). Option #2 here: http://www.motobit.com/tips/detpg_post-binary-data-url/ (as cited in the question on SO noted above) seems like it would work well, but as I work in JS and CSS, I have no idea how to create