On Dec 20, 2007 1:06 PM, Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to write some JavaScript function in web page > that can fetch other web page from internet, store it in > variable, parse and present some extracted data from that > other page. I just do not know how to fetch other page. > I guess I am looking for some kind of socket > function in JavaScript (like fsockopen() in PHP). > Is there such thing?
Search for XMLHttpRequest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest You might want to use it to retrieve HTTP(S) documents (can be XML). I think you cannot open pages that are not hosted in the same host the original page (the one with the JS code) is. (I am not sure now). Regards, Nelson.' -- http://arhuaco.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
