[Javascript] Content Retrieval

[Tim Makins]

Thanks, but I'll try the easy way first.

Tim in Ireland.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cutter" <java.script at seacrets.com>
To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] Content Retrieval


> 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).
>
> Cutter
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>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
> >>
> >>
> >these
> >
> >
> >>text strings and place them in a variable on my own page. Any ideas ?
> >>
> >>Tim in Ireland.
> >>
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