What's the format/trick to programmatically calling the RSS Feed URL and passing the password

We've created a few web forms that are now collecting data. That's all working great, and JotForm makes this pretty easy. We've also created an RSS Feed so that we can retrieve the submissions. Due to the content on the forms, we needed to set a password on the RSS Feed. I'm struggling to pass that password programmatically to the RSS Feed URL. I'm using VBA. Here's what I have, which I have to believe is only the right tweak away, but I don't know how to include the password to prevent the pop-up:

Function GetHTTPResponse(url As String) As String

Dim msXML As Object

   Set msXML = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
  
   With msXML
      .Open "Get", url, False
      '.Open "Get", url, False, "", "thepassword" '(this did not work)
      '.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
      '.setRequestHeader "Authorization", "Basic thepassword" '(this did not work)
      .send
      GetHTTPResponse = .responseText
   End With
  
   Set msXML = Nothing

End Function

Any ideas, thoughts, comments, etc, would be appreciated.

Thanks, Mark

Hey Mark, could you please try using the link with the passKey URL parameter.

For example, if your RSS feed was behind the following URL:

https://www.jotform.com/rss/12345

And if your password was test12

You would be using the following link to access the RSS feed directly:

https://www.jotform.com/rss/12345?passKey=test12

Please try it out, and let us know how it goes. If you run into any issues along the way, we are here to help. :)

THANK YOU Boris!!! I had the feeling it was a syntax issue. I tried a couple variations that I saw on the net, but obviously not that one. It worked like a charm. Thanks again for your help!!!

You are most welcome, Mark, glad it helped. If you ever run into a similar issue in the future, you can try right-clicking on the password field and using your browser's Developer Tools to inspect the element.

It will show the password field's name, which can usually / sometimes be used as an URL parameter. Here is how inspecting the password field on the RSS Report looks like:

If there is anything else we can help you, we are always just a support thread away.