Hello,

I need to connect to a web server, extract some data and
put it in a worksheet. It would be much easier to extract
this data directly from excel than having to develop an
external application to do it.

Is it possible to open a TCP Socket with VBA in excel? if
it is, where can I find some information about it?

Thanks

Fernando E

Rather than connect via sockets, why not use some of the functionality
already provided by Excel.

Data | Get External Data | Run Web Query

--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"fernando" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I need to connect to a web server, extract some data and
put it in a worksheet. It would be much easier to extract
this data directly from excel than having to develop an
external application to do it.

Is it possible to open a TCP Socket with VBA in excel? if
it is, where can I find some information about it?

Thanks

Fernando E

You may want to check out the follwing link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...pconnect_2.asp

The examples are in C# but it gives a good idea how to use the
functions

Here's the declarations needed which I found in an example on another
forum

Public Const AF_INET = 2
Public Const SOCK_STREAM = 1
Public Const SOCKET_ERROR = 1
Public Const FD_SETSIZE = 64
Public Const FIONBIO = 2147772030#
Public Const SOCKADDR_IN_SIZE = 16
Public Const FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM = &H1000

Public Address As String
Public Port As Integer
Public SocketHandle As Long

Public Type WSADATA
wVersion As Integer
wHighVersion As Integer
szDescription As String * 257
szSystemStatus As String * 129
iMaxSockets As Integer
iMaxUdpDg As Integer
lpVendorInfo As Long
End Type

Public Type SOCKADDR_IN
sin_family As Integer
sin_port As Integer
sin_addr As Long
sin_zero As String * 8
End Type

Public Type fd_set
fd_count As Long
fd_array(FD_SETSIZE) As Long
End Type

Public Type timeval
tv_sec As Long
tv_usec As Long
End Type

Public Declare Function WSAStartup Lib "wsock32.dll" (ByVal
intVersionRequested As Integer, lpWSAData As WSADATA) As Long
Public Declare Function WSACleanup Lib "wsock32.dll" () As Long
Public Declare Function w_socket Lib "wsock32.dll" Alias "socket"
(ByVal lngAf As Long, ByVal lngType As Long, ByVal lngProtocol As
Long) As Long
Public Declare Function w_closesocket Lib "wsock32.dll" Alias
"closesocket" (ByVal SocketHandle As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function w_bind Lib "wsock32.dll" Alias "bind" (ByVal
socket As Long, Name As SOCKADDR_IN, ByVal namelen As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function w_connect Lib "wsock32.dll" Alias "connect"
(ByVal socket As Long, Name As SOCKADDR_IN, ByVal namelen As Long) As
Long
Public Declare Function w_send Lib "wsock32.dll" Alias "send" (ByVal
socket As Long, buf As Any, ByVal length As Long, ByVal flags As Long)
As Long
Public Declare Function w_recv Lib "wsock32.dll" Alias "recv" (ByVal
socket As Long, buf As Any, ByVal length As Long, ByVal flags As Long)
As Long
Public Declare Function w_select Lib "wsock32.dll" Alias "select"
(ByVal nfds As Long, readfds As fd_set, writefds As fd_set, exceptfds
As fd_set, timeout As timeval) As Long
Public Declare Function htons Lib "wsock32.dll" (ByVal hostshort As
Integer) As Integer
Public Declare Function ntohl Lib "wsock32.dll" (ByVal netlong As
Long) As Long
Public Declare Function inet_addr Lib "wsock32.dll" (ByVal Address As
String) As Long
Public Declare Function ioctlsocket Lib "wsock32.dll" (ByVal socket As
Long, ByVal cmd As Long, argp As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function FormatMessage Lib "kernel32" Alias
"FormatMessageA" (ByVal dwFlags As Long, lpSource As Any, ByVal
dwMessageId As Long, ByVal dwLanguageId As Long, ByVal lpBuffer As
String, ByVal nSize As Long, Arguments As Long) As Long

And the functions called in VBA

ret = WSAStartup(&H101, wd) 'Init winsock

SocketHandle = w_socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) 'Open socket,
get sockethandle

localAddress.sin_family = AF_INET
localAddress.sin_port = 0 'local port defined by operating system
localAddress.sin_addr = 0 'local address

ret = w_bind(SocketHandle, localAddress, SOCKADDR_IN_SIZE) 'Bind
socket to local port

serverAddress.sin_family = AF_INET
serverAddress.sin_port = htons(Port) 'port number
serverAddress.sin_addr = inet_addr(Address) 'ip address

ret = w_connect(SocketHandle, serverAddress, SOCKADDR_IN_SIZE)
'Connect to remote host

URIRequest = URI
ret = w_send(SocketHandle, ByVal URIRequest, Len(URIRequest), 0)
'send connect string

ret = w_recv(SocketHandle, retBuff(0), 1024, 0) 'Receive
string



Simon


"fernando" wrote in message ...
Hello,

I need to connect to a web server, extract some data and
put it in a worksheet. It would be much easier to extract
this data directly from excel than having to develop an
external application to do it.

Is it possible to open a TCP Socket with VBA in excel? if
it is, where can I find some information about it?

Thanks

Fernando E

Thanks!