Perform HTTP Post from within Excel and Parse Results

Question

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

1. Send the HTTP Post to

Answer 1

I suggest to use WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1 instead of MSXML2.XMLHTTP whenever you need windows authentication, because it allows you to use current user credential to login. Here is an example

Dim http As Object
Set http = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
http.SetAutoLogonPolicy 0
http.Open "POST", "http://myUrl.html?param1=value1", False
http.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/json"
http.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B405"
http.send ("")

Reference: https://github.com/VBA-tools/VBA-Web/issues/15