[thelist] iframes evil? (was RE: Grabbing a file across domains)
Hassan Schroeder
hassan.schroeder at gmail.com
Wed Jan 10 18:53:03 CST 2007
On 1/10/07, Joel D Canfield <joel at streamliine.com> wrote:
> pondering how forms would work; send the form info, get the form page
> back;
Shouldn't that be the other way around? Get form page, post values back,
get response page? In any case,
> not sure if this would be an ugly can o'worms or an absolute treat.
,, yes :-)
Depending on if/how any client side validation was implemented, a
simplistic screen scrape that just discarded everything outside the
<body> tags could fail in a pretty ugly fashion...
Personally, I'd say it's time to ask your "quoting tools vendor" to join
the freakin' 21st Century and simply expose their *processes* as a
set of Web services -- but that's just me :-)
FWIW,
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