[Javascript] Data Loading

[Håkan Magnusson]

JavaScript XMLHttp-requests do not require a certain type of server, as 
a matter of fact it perfectly supports getting files from the local 
filesystem, and the support is quite rock solid in both IE5+ and Mozilla 
browsers. Since I've already been rambling about regular expressions I 
might as well continue with that and say that this operation (if I 
understand you correctly - you want to get this list from a remote 
webserver and do something with the data right?) would be fairly easy to 
implement.

As usual, I don't have the time right NOW to write the code for this, 
but if you can wait I'll give it a shot in the coming days.

If you want to do it yourself, it's basically getting the file using 
XMLHttp, extracting the table and then doing the split()ting Paul was 
talking about. I wouldn't open a new window or tamper with innerHTML 
though, instead I would match the body content from the rest of the file 
through a regexp and work from there. The innerHTML property is more 
than just a text representation of something, it's sort of a parser, and 
the value found in innerHTML is not always what you are looking for or 
what you would expect.

Regards,
H

Chris Tifer wrote:

> If you have a Windows-based server, you can use the XMLHTTP component to
> call any page and the output will be stored in a variable.
> 
> By the way, those particular symbols are called a query string.
> 
> Chris Tifer
> http://emailajoke.com
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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Makins" <spindrift at oceanfree.net>
> To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:58 PM
> Subject: [Javascript] Data Loading
> 
> 
> 
>>Imagine a website, that if you send it some particular symbols after the
>>URL, for instance
>>
>>http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/posit.cgi?call=k4hg-8&comma=1
>>
>>(try it, and you will see), it will return a short table of data,
>>comma-separated.
>>
>>What I would like to know is how can I input this data into a variable,
> 
> for
> 
>>subsequent processing.
>>
>>Tim in Ireland.
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