FollowHyperlink Works/Doesn't Work (1 Viewer)

[vito1010]

I have two buttons on a form. One copies the Social Security Number and strips out the "-" then opens the IRS Refund Status website.
The second does the same thing but (is supposed to) open the NYS Refund Status site. (The urls both work if c/p into a browser).
The NYS one gives me an error:
Run-time Error: '8'
Cannot Download the Information You Requested


These are the two items:

Private Sub GoNYS_Click()
Me!Social.SetFocus
    Me!SS3 = Replace(Social, "-", "")
    Me!SS3.SetFocus
    DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdCopy

    Me!Social.SetFocus
    
    FollowHyperlink "https://www8.tax.ny.gov/PRIS/prisStart"
End Sub

Private Sub GoIRS_Click()
    Me!Social.SetFocus
    Me!SS3 = Replace(Social, "-", "")
    Me!SS3.SetFocus
    DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdCopy

    Me!Social.SetFocus
 
  FollowHyperlink "https://sa.www4.irs.gov/irfof/lang/en/irfofgetstatus.jsp"
End Sub

Any idea why the GoIRS works and the GoNYS doesn't. It did work at one time.

 

[Gasman]

Would have to do with the web page I suspect. They changed something at their end?
Personally I would just have one sub that determines where to go re the web page.

Just duplicate code there.

 

[561414]

No idea why Access doesn't like the link, but you can try a different approach to open it
Change FollowHyperlink "https://www8.tax.ny.gov/PRIS/prisStart"
with this Shell "explorer " & "https://www8.tax.ny.gov/PRIS/prisStart"
or maybe this Shell "cmd /c start " & "https://www8.tax.ny.gov/PRIS/prisStart"

Would have to do with the web page I suspect

The error comes from access, as far as I can tell

 

[Gasman]

Just tried

FollowHyperlink "https://www8.tax.ny.gov/PRIS/prisStart"

in the immediate window. Always a good place to test one liners.

Works fine, too me straight to the site.

 

[vito1010]

I changed it to

Shell "explorer " & "https://www8.tax.ny.gov/PRIS/prisStart"

and that worked. I don't understand why the original stopped working. But, whatever. At least I got it working.
Thank you to all who helped.