[Javascript] Content Retrieval

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Server-side scripting. You could use CFHTTP (ColdFusion tag) in a  CF 
page you parse on the free version of BlueDragon 6.1 (newatlanta.com).

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Matt Barton wrote:

>Morning.
>
>You could use the xmlhttp activeX control to do this client-side in IE, but
>whenever I've had to do this before, I've found a server-side approach much
>more useful (no browser compatibility issues).  I have used curl on a *nix
>platform to get the webpage and then extract the required strings - and that
>worked perfectly.  But for that you'd need a *nix server - I'm not sure what
>you would do if your server was a windows machine... (perhaps a server-side
>implementation of xml-http???)
>
>Do you have scope for a server-side approach, or is it a client side
>solution you want?  If it's server-side, what is the platform?
>
>Matt
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Tim Makins" <spindrift at oceanfree.net>
>To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:45 AM
>Subject: [Javascript] Content Retrieval
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>>There is a webpage on the web that has dynamic content. On this page, two
>>text strings always appear in the same place. I would like to retrieve
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>these
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>>text strings and place them in a variable on my own page. Any ideas ?
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>>Tim in Ireland.
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