read document html source using javascript

[wed_hacker]

Can JavaScript read page content (html source) ? Please help...:confused:

[khalidali63]

The way your questionis structured it seesm like you want to pass a url to a javascript function and then spit out the html of the page.
You can not do the above witht JavaScript.

Khalid

[wed_hacker]

I was using a perl cgi to do the http request, but the target site was denied to do so. When I requested from the browser, it displayed nicely, that's why I was think if I can use javascript in a hidden frame and do a source read using javascript...

but thanks Khalid

[khalidali63]

When you try to get a html page using an http request programmaticaly rather using a browser,in this case you will have to set a HTTP property "user-agent" to a browsers http equilant name.

Khalid