Retreiving a section of a web page

[Solihull]

I'm trying to retreive a section of a web page and display it in a pop-up window.

The page from which I need to retreive the section is not mine. It is however a page which is generally available on the web.

I have been told that this can only be achieved as a result of using server side scripts.

Can anyone offer any guidance and or a script that will allow me to achieve this?

:)

[Alex Vincent]

You could include the entire document via a popup window with the window.open() command in JavaScript, but you could not edit it or extract anything. The best you'll be able to do is hopefully find a target (a name="myTarget"></a>) and use that target in the URI (adding "#myTarget" to the URI before any question marks, but after everything else).

[Solihull]

I'm not trying to extract or retreive anything from the web page. I mearly want to frame a part of the page excluding all the other parts I don't want to see.

Is this possible?

[Alex Vincent]

No, I don't believe that's possible in JavaScript, as you describe it to me. Even with security clearances, you'd still have to download the whole page. Better for a server-side script to download the page as it updates (say, every six hours), create a localized copy of it, and serve the parts of the local copy that matter.

What server-side language would you like to use? PHP, Perl, or another language? That will determine where I or a super-mod should move this thread, so you can get an effective answer. :)

[Solihull]

I think ASP would be the ptrferred solution - is that possible?:)

[Alex Vincent]

ASP guys, this is your boat now.

[glenngv]

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/040600-1.shtml