VBA ServerXMLHTTP https request with self signed certificate

Question

I\'m using a ServerXMLHTTP object to make some http requests on an excel 2007 vba script.

But I need to connect to an https server which uses a self-signed SSL Certi

Answer 1

Set objHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
objHTTP.SetOption(2, objHTTP.GetOption(2) - SXH_SERVER_CERT_IGNORE_ALL_SERVER_ERRORS)
objHTTP.Open "POST", "https://invernalia.homelinux.net", False, "user", "password"
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
objHTTP.send ("")

Got the above solution to work with a minor change. Instead of:

objHTTP.SetOption(2, objHTTP.GetOption(2) - SXH_SERVER_CERT_IGNORE_ALL_SERVER_ERRORS)

I used:

objHTTP.SetOption(2) = (objHTTP.GetOption(2) - SXH_SERVER_CERT_IGNORE_ALL_SERVER_ERRORS)

Otherwise I get an error of:

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0414' Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub objHTTP.SetOption(2, objHTTP.GetOption(2) - SXH_SERVER_CERT_IGNORE_ALL_SERVER_ERRORS)

referenced from: SXH_OPTION_IGNORE_SERVER_SSL_CERT_ERROR_FLAGS