Title: Posting automatically using vbscript Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Posting automatically using vbscript * Resolved [ajbeaven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajbeaven/) * (@ajbeaven) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-automatically-using-vbscript/) * I’ve set up a scheduled task to run a vbscript file every 15 minutes to get postie to post automatically. The script just makes a simple HTTP GET request to /wp- content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php as described here: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/204759/http-get-in-vbs](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/204759/http-get-in-vbs). * Here’s what the script looks like: * ``` Call CheckMail() Sub CheckMail() On Error Resume Next Dim getRequest Dim URL Set getRequest = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP") URL = "http://www.mydomainhere.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php" getRequest.open "GET", URL , false getRequest.Send Set getRequest = Nothing End Sub ``` * I have plenty other scheduled tasks like this set up to run tasks and they work as they should. Is there any reason why this wouldn’t work with postie? * Cheers, Andrew * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postie/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postie/) Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Thread Starter [ajbeaven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajbeaven/) * (@ajbeaven) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-automatically-using-vbscript/#post-3710650) * Ahh, when I wrote the response to a text file this is what I get: * ``` Not Found

Not Found

HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.

``` * I know for sure that the URL is correct. When I copy and paste the URL from the script into my browser it resolves and postie checks for mail as it should. * Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/) * (@wayneallen-1) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-automatically-using-vbscript/#post-3710902) * Not sure what to tell you. Something about your request is wrong, or there some server side activity happening. * Take a look at: [http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/archive/2009/04/27/troubleshooting-a-404.aspx](http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/archive/2009/04/27/troubleshooting-a-404.aspx) * Thread Starter [ajbeaven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajbeaven/) * (@ajbeaven) * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-automatically-using-vbscript/#post-3710948) * Sigh… turns out I forgot I had my hosts file set up. Thanks for the response anyway. Great plugin! Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Posting automatically using vbscript’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/postie/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=970083) * [Postie](https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/postie/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/postie/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/postie/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/postie/reviews/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [ajbeaven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajbeaven/) * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-automatically-using-vbscript/#post-3710948) * Status: resolved