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Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS ..

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Mayayana,

> This seems to work, but I don't normally use it, so I'm
> not familiar:
>
> Set WinHttpReq = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")

Thank you !   I quick test shows that with it I can now retrieve pages from 
websites which earlier "refused" to cooperate.  :-)

Now I wonder how many different "retrieve a webpage" Active-X objects are 
actually on my 'puter ...

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> wrote in message 
news:orl5b4$7qk$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote
>
> | Does anyone know if there is a MS Active-X component which will allow me
> to
> | retrieve a HTTPS webpage ?
>
> This seems to work, but I don't normally use it, so I'm
> not familiar:
>
> Set WinHttpReq = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
>
> temp = WinHttpReq.Open("GET", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/", True)
>    WinHttpReq.Send
>
>     WinHttpReq.WaitForResponse
>
>    strResult = WinHttpReq.ResponseText
>
>
> Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
> Set TS = FSO.CreateTextFile("C:\windows\desktop\up\index.html", True)
>  TS.Write strResult
>  TS.Close
> Set TS = Nothing
>
> Set fso = Nothing
> Set WinHttpReq = Nothing
>
> MsgBox Err.number & vbCrLf & Err.description
> '------------------------------------------------
>
> google.com gave me a 301
> www.google.com worked but gave me a 404.
> I then tried https://www.washingtonpost.com/
> and got a cert expired error.

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Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 13:54 +0200
  Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 09:11 -0400
    Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 17:45 +0200
      Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 18:24 +0200
        Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 12:39 -0400
          Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 18:59 +0200
            Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 14:53 -0400
              Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 22:22 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 17:45 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 09:25 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-12 10:17 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 19:19 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-12 14:17 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 23:09 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 12:28 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 14:26 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 18:23 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-14 09:54 +0200

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