Re: Using XMLHTTPRequest within Firefox (Newbie)

Anthony Jones wrote:
> "Dave F." <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Hi
>>
>> 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?
>> I looked for a Mozilla object library but couldn't see one. Would I have
>> to load it manually?
>>
>> I've done some basic Google searching but unearthed nothing to get me
>> started.
>>
>> Please point me in the right direction.
>>
> 
> Where your code currently says:-
> 
> var xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("MSXML.XMLHTTP")
> 
> replace it with
> 
> var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest()
> 
> Thats it.
> 

I had go but with no success.

This is the code I'm using at the moment.

Snip of code:

   Dim http As New MSXML.XMLHTTPRequest
   http.Open "post", "http://www.advfn.com/blah,blah,blah", False, 
"Username", "Password"
   http.send
   Str = http.responseText

Any ideas?