[thelist] Embedding remote Web content with #include under IIS 4.

Raymond Camden rcamden at allaire.com
Thu Jan 25 12:36:31 CST 2001


It's pretty easy in CF, just use CFHTTP.

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Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Allaire

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> Subject: [thelist] Embedding remote Web content with #include under IIS
> 4.
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> I'm trying to find a way of using include statements to embed
> responses from
> remote Web servers. Something similar to this:
>
>     #include file="http://www.foo.com/latest.txt"
>
> Why? I've got a number of databases that can respond to requests
> over HTTP.
> (Since the HTTP interface already exists, I'd like to reuse it rather than
> using a normal data access mechanism.) If I can insert text from a remote
> host with an #include of some sort, I can easily create dynamic content
> drawn from different data sources. Obviously, this is not a standard SSI
> statement. Does anyone know of a product that adds this feature to IIS? To
> Apache?
>
> Thank you,
>
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>   David Adams
>   Island Data Management
>   Kailua, HI 96734
>   dpadams at island-data.com
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