Urldownloadtofile authentication

Any help is much appreciated. This interface did not allow me to include the source file link, which is a daily quote.

Yes thanks, Andreas. Either the security settings or Trend Micro software prevent the function from writing to the root directory. I directed the destination file to other locations and the function works fine. May I add another observation: If the local filename e. The workaround in this case is to use an 8-dotname for the offending path element like in old MS-DOS times We need to give userName and password in order to download the url.

How can i achieve this. Above http request works for normal url files which does not require any authentication. If the URL requires other forms of authentication, eg logins resulting in a OAuth token or other session cookie, then you need to either automate InternetExplorer. The http response contains headers not only acknowledging the authentication but helping a client side class to keep a session alive, whereas URLDownloadToFile disregards that and doesn't take care of the feedback from the server in response headers aside of the content-length to expect.

What you need will depend on what authentication is necessary and will likely need some request headers to be set from you, you need to dig into the specifics of the authentication process. Thank you very much for replying. I usually have microsoft sharepoint urls. Any ideas why this may be?

It is driving me crazy. Best Regards,. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they helped. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff microsoft. SharePoint Server has been released, you can click here to download it. Click here to learn new features. Visit the dedicated forum to share , explore and talk to experts about SharePoint Server Same exact result. I am at a loss as to why this is happening only with this SharePoint network. Office Office Exchange Server.

Not an IT pro? I've been working with various codes to search through windows and attempt to find the handle. Most recently I started using: vbaexpress. Not seeing any differences in the outputs with these two conditions though. How do you get strURL?

Is it a direct link to the file to be downloaded? Take a look at this , this and this answers. It's a direct link but I need to authenticate through other pages first.

I'll take a look at the links, thank you. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I have managed to solve similar issue with some JavaScript. Stream class. Otherwise the function below will 'crash on the line: [.

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