Password needed for Web query

[Kestrel]

Morning folks,
I have a sheet which uses a web query to retrieve data from a site. You are asked to enter the password when loading the data. I would like to pre-empt this by including password in my code. Any thoughts?
Thanks for the help.
K.

 

[ChrisUK]

Hi.

If the password forms part of the URL it's easy to do, if not then you have a problem on your hands! Take a look at some of the MS investor supplied queries which come with Excel, if you edit the iqy file in something like notepad you will see you can prompt the user for information. There are also some further 'bits' after the URL in the iqy file, I wonder if you can specify here Password = "123" ? worth a try.

Failing this use XMLHTTP, this grabs the page for you, the problem here is you need to unscramble the data from the HTML - not easy but not impossible either.

Hope this helps

 

[Kestrel]

Thanks for the start, ChrisUK.
I appreciate it.
Later.
This message was edited by Kestrel on 2002-10-09 10:31