Pass session between WinHttp and VBA QueryTables

mongolianboss

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  1. 2016
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  1. Windows
Hello

I have code that uses WinHttp for login. It redirects and needs session key and cookies to authenticate so I can't use QueryTables for authentication.
I also have legacy code that uses QueryTables for pulling data from the same service.

Is it possible to somehow use the same session I'm creating in WinHttp to pull data using QueryTables? At the moment QueryTables won't be authenticated because the session is not shared.
I know can build parser after using WinHttp but it would be much cleaner and I could reuse the legacy code with QueryTables.

My code below:

VBA Code:
Sub Log()


UrlToPostTo = "https://www.test.com"
    Set http = New WinHttp.WinHttpRequest
    http.Open "GET", UrlToPostTo, False
    http.Option(WinHttpRequestOption_EnableRedirects) = True
    http.SetRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    http.SetRequestHeader "Connection", "keep-alive"
    http.Send
    If http.Status = "200" Then
        ' parse redirect url
        response = CStr(http.ResponseText)
        searchaction = InStr(1, response, "action", 0) + 8
        searchmethod = InStr(1, response, "method", 0) - 2
        response = Mid(response, searchaction, searchmethod - searchaction)
        response = Replace(response, "amp;", "")
        UrlRedirectedTo = response
        'create POST request
        loginData = "username=user&password=pass"
        http.Open "POST", UrlRedirectedTo, False
        http.SetRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        http.SetRequestHeader "Connection", "keep-alive"
        http.Send loginData
        ' logged in to www.test.com
    End If



With Sheets("Log").QueryTables.Add(Connection:="https://www.test.com/service1/table1", Destination:=Sheets("Log").Range("$A$1"))
        .Name = "Log"
        .RowNumbers = False
        .FillAdjacentFormulas = False
        .PreserveFormatting = True
        .RefreshOnFileOpen = False
        .BackgroundQuery = True
        .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells
        .SavePassword = False
        .SaveData = True
        .AdjustColumnWidth = True
        .RefreshPeriod = 0
        .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables
        .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingNone
        .WebPreFormattedTextToColumns = True
        .WebConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne = True
        .WebSingleBlockTextImport = False
        .WebDisableDateRecognition = False
        .WebDisableRedirections = False
        .Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
        
        
End With
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
    
End Sub
 

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