And lo on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:51:37 -0000, Fa3ien  
<fab### [at] yourshoesskynetbe> did spake, saying:

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> I tought 'well, just do some javascript, put the content of the url in  
> an iframe, read it, and act accordingly'.  Done that. It doesn't work.  
> Why ?  The XMLHTTPRequest function, which is used to put the content of  
> the iframe in a string, is prohibited (in any browser in existence) to  
> work with content from another domain. Ouch !

If it's any help I know IE6 didn't have this security restriction, but  
that 'hole' may have been plugged now.

> I found some GreaseMonkey script which pretended to allow bypass of this  
> "cross-domain policy", but it didn't work.
>
> So I'm still at the start of this seemingly simple project.  I'm  
> currently thinking of getting the pages with WGET, but can I pilot WGET  
> from Javascript ? Or should I try another language ?  Or a completely  
> different path ?

Depends what you've got to work with and how it's going to be applied. If  
you've a PHP server then as Gilles said that's your best bet, otherwise  
you're running a 'script' directly.

-- 
Phil Cook

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