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

This works for me:

With CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0")
  .Open "GET", URL, False
  .Send
  content = .ResponseText
End With