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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 11/28/57 11:26
__/ [Neredbojias] on Tuesday 13 September 2005 01:56 \__
> 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.
I have given up at this stage. Test file is now in the wastebasket...
*frown*
Thanks for the help,
Roy
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