Base64 HMAC SHA1 String in VBA

Question

I\'m trying to convert an ASP/VBScript OAuth library to VBA. One of the challenges is this line of code:

Get_Signature = b64_hmac_sha1(strSecret, strBaseSign         


        

Answer 1

You have written:

It appears to me that calling a JavaScript function from VBA is fairly impractical.

That is a misjudgment.

Javascript can be easily packaged as a Windows Script Component (WSC) and then invokved via COM, from VBA, Perl, VB6, or what-have-you.

Here's an example of packaging Javascript as a WSC and invoking it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/849970/48082

Therefore, your problem should be easily solvable.