VBA: Internet explorer control download - ms-access

Question

Does anyone know of a way when using InternetExplorer.Application of using the FileDownload Event and what is possible with it? I'm trying to detect when IE is downloading a file so that when the file download is done the file is handled automatically.
There is a DownloadBegin and a DownloadComplete Events but this look to be talking about when navigating to a URL and not an accual file download.

Answer 1

You should be able to confirm the status of the download process.
Option Explicit
Declare PtrSafe Function URLDownloadToFile Lib "urlmon" Alias "URLDownloadToFileA" (ByVal pCaller As Long, ByVal szURL As String, ByVal szFileName As String, ByVal dwReserved As Long, ByVal lpfnCB As Long) As Long
Sub DownloadFileAPI()
Dim strURL As String
Dim LocalFilePath As String
Dim DownloadStatus As Long
strURL = "http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt"
LocalFilePath = "C:\Test\TEST2_tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt"
DownloadStatus = URLDownloadToFile(0, strURL, LocalFilePath, 0, 0)
If DownloadStatus = 0 Then
MsgBox "File Downloaded. Check in this path: " & LocalFilePath
Else
MsgBox "Download File Process Failed"
End If
End Sub
Sub DownloadFile()
Dim WinHttpReq As Object
Dim oStream As Object
Dim myURL As String
Dim LocalFilePath As String
myURL = "http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt"
LocalFilePath = "C:\Test\TEST_tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt"
Set WinHttpReq = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
WinHttpReq.Open "GET", myURL, False, "", "" '("username", "password")
WinHttpReq.send
If WinHttpReq.Status = 200 Then
Set oStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
oStream.Open
oStream.Type = 1
oStream.Write WinHttpReq.responseBody
oStream.SaveToFile LocalFilePath, 2 ' 1 = no overwrite, 2 = overwrite
oStream.Close
End If
End Sub