Automatically open document from website using vbscript

[Metrazal]

I am working on a script to automatically open a file from a website. I have gotten to the part where I receive a prompt from IE to either open or save the document and I would like to open the document. Following is the code I'm using to get to the prompt:

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Is there a way to choose Open in the IE11 prompt using coding? Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks,

Met

[Kyle123]

No, not easily. You could try send keys but it's somewhat unreliable. One of the problems you have is that you need to use windows APIs to get a handle to the popup window and select the button, this is made more difficult by the fact that no all users will get this prompt depending on how they have IE configured, they could see a ribbon or the download manager for example.

In summary the only really reliable way is to not use IE at all and use HTTP requests to get the document directly which may or may not be complicated depending on the site and your knowledge level.

[Metrazal]

Kyle:

Thanks for the information.

In case someone else stumbles across this post I was able to achieve what I was wanting. Following is an excerpt of the code I used:

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Note: I decided to save the file instead of opening the file but you can open the file also.

Thanks again..

Met