Re: Using XMLHTTPRequest within Firefox (Newbie)

"Anthony Jones" <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:42:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xml
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"Martin Honnen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Dave F. wrote:
>
> > I use MSXML.XMLHTTPRequest in an Excel VBA routine to download info from
> > a web page using responseText.
> >
> > I'd like to swap over from IE & use Firefox instead. Is this possible?
>
> If you use MSXML.XMLHttpRequest in an Excel VBA then you are not using
> IE at all, you are using VBA and MSXML. So I don't understand what you
> are doing where you would want to switch from IE to Firefox.
>

Perhaps if we substitute "IE" with "Microsoft's HTTP Stack" it might make
more sense.

I don't think it is currently possible to utalise the Mozilla HTTP stack
from VBA.  It would require a COM wrapper at least and I doubt such a thing
exitst.

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Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET