[moonmonkey]

I want to put the text of another webpage into a variable.

I know how to put my own put the text from the current page into a variable, I just want to load the text from another remote (not hosted by me) page into it.

I really hope someone can help with this, as its a big problem I can't seem to solve.

Please help!!!

[registered_user]

You tell javascript to call a script on your server (php, asp, jsp, whatever) that opens the page on the remote server and feeds the data to the script.

aka ajax.

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by registered_user

You tell javascript to call a script on your server (php, asp, jsp, whatever) that opens the page on the remote server and feeds the data to the script.

aka ajax.

Is there anyway to do it with just Javascript as its code for a widget?

Could I load the content in an iFrame and pass that into a variable?

Thanks in advance!

[Millennium]

XMLHttpRequest has a same-origin limitation, and there are good reasons for that, but an iframe-based solution sounds like it ought to work. Of course, that has problems of its own; for example, you can't easily issue an HTTP POST request from an iframe. But if that's not a problem for your case, it sounds as though it should be doable.