Posted by Neredbojias on 11/02/68 11:26

With neither quill nor qualm, Roy Schestowitz quothed:

> __/ [Neredbojias] on Monday 12 September 2005 18:23 \__
>
> > With neither quill nor qualm, Roy Schestowitz quothed:
> >
> >> To rephrase my request as you were not sure what I meant, I seek to grab
> >> text from http://example.org/data.txt and then embed it in a <span>, for
> >> instance, in http://example.com/page.html. data.txt gets updated all the
> >> time, hence it needs to be grabbed. If JavaScript was disabled, there
> >> would be no harm either.
> >
> > The "grabbing the text" part is the difficulty, especially if it's
> > dynamic. I know of no way to "address" plain text (files) with simple
> > javascript (from another source). What I've done in the past is put my
> > text, which is static, in a .js file and call it from a regular html
> > page. The text itself had to be loaded into variables inside the .js
> > file so it could be manipulated from within the html page. You might
> > say it was a "poor man's include".
>
>
> I thought of simpler solutions, but I am afraid there are none. I output
> text to a file every 10 minutes and I want to send it to the Web server.
> More easily, I am able to make the output public and fetch it from the Web
> server to be included (dynamically) as part of a file that resides on the
> server. So essentially I want to mix data from two computers to make up a
> single page. I can do that with images (HotLinking), but not with text,
> yet.
>
>
> > This doesn't sound like what you want but you should be able to accept
> > that if you've ever been married.
>
>
> *LOL* I began to lose interest in that file grabbing idea. It appears to be
> more complex than I initially speculated (one of those silly ideas that
> crop up while walking in the street). Let's wait and see if Vlad can come
> up with an easy fix, exchanging file with a URL that it remote.

I think you're going to end up needing Perl (or Java?) Security is an
issue. Anyway, best of luck.

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Neredbojias
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