Quote Originally Posted by 'BobGnarly',index.php?page=Thread&postID=84890#pos t84890
I don't believe that there is any way to do this while in combat. The reason I say that is that Blizzard specifically doesn't want you doing that, they said so when they made the API private.

Now it's possible that you might find a loophole somewhere, but I would caution you that "there lies dragons" since you are trying to circumvent the protection mechanism that they put in place, and they've been very clear in the past what they think of that.
Just so I'm clear... are you talking to me or OP?

I'm pretty sure that the method I listed above does work while in combat. I will test it tonight to confirm 100% however.