[thelist] iframe as big as necessary?

[Jason Handby]

> but if the document in iframe *is* on server A, and it contains the 
> necessary javascript, and also reads in stuff from a file on 
> server B. 
> in php I would do something like:
> 
> $news_source = '';
> $file = fopen("http://www.B.com/news.aspx", "r");
> if (!$file) die("unable to access news server");
> while (!feof($file))
> {
>     $news_source .= fgets($file);
> }
> fclose($file);
> 
> and then clean up and do things with the $news_source.
> 
> this would also allow fetching the news content from other 
> servers too, 
> and using the same javascript with them.
> 
> would this work?

Having discovered that the Javascript route wasn't going to work, I'm
now in the middle of doing pretty much exactly that!

Thanks Kasimir and Peter-Paul for your help.



Jason

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