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How can I read a website's html code into a javascript string on my computer?
I have an html file on my local computer with javascript code inside it. I would like to have my javascript do some processing on information retrieved from a different web page (i.e. a page that's read in from out on the internet).
I have tried creating a frame on my page that links to the other site and accessing that frame's .innerHTML but that triggers a privilege violation error. I've tried using XMLHttpRequest, but that never comes back with a successful status (getting 0 instead of 200 or 304). I have tried using an iframe and reading its innerHTML, but when I do that I only get the html code that's used if the browser doesn't support iframes.
Does anyone know a way to do this? Is there a way I can set the privilege with Firefox to allow it to get the other frame's html code?
Firebug looks like a nifty tool. But does it add some capabilities that let me override the privilege violation thing? or will it get the XMLhttpRequest to work?
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
To read the content of a web page from cross domain sites the page needs to be privileged. Local HTML files are unprivileged. Some solutions are:
- Develop an extension, which gives HTML files inside it privileged.
- Use a platform targeted at creating these kind of applications, e.g. xulrunner or Adobe Air.
- 1 decade ago
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