Call https page via .vbs script fails ... why?

Question

Here's the script. Tried executing by itself ... nada. Tried executing via task scheduler ... nada. If I hit the URL below via IE it works. Any ideas???

''//Force the script to finish on an error.
On Error Resume Next

''//Declare variables
Dim objRequest
Dim URL

Set objRequest = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

''//Put together the URL link appending the Variables.
URL = "https://myurlhere.com"

''//Open the HTTP request and pass the URL to the objRequest object
objRequest.open "GET", URL , false

''//Send the HTML Request
objRequest.Send

''//Set the object to nothing
Set objRequest = Nothing

Answer 1

"In Internet Explorer 8, the VBScript syntax is not supported"

-- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535874%28VS.85%29.aspx

Could this be the problem?

Answer 2

The problem was that the page was requiring windows authentication and even though the script was running as an authenticated user ... it was failing due to not responding with a username and password when asked.

Solution: * Enable anonymous authentication * Update web.config so that notification controller didn't require an authenticated user