Include file with http.. can I?

[weee]

Can I have the address of my include contain http://... the whole URL?

Thanks!

[slyfox]

I don't know, try it, it probably will work...

[weee]

I tried it and it didn't work but I wasn't sure about the syntax.

Don't get me wrong but does it make sense answer: "I don't know..."?

[buntine]

As far as I am aware, the included file must be local and preferably relative to the root directory of the Web Site.

I have not looked into the possibilities of grabbing data from remote servers. Mayby try something via the XML or FSO api's?

Regards.

[russell]

You can't. That would be a huge security hole. PHP allows it though, along with some other really interesting security flaws...can you say "register globals" ...?

[slyfox]

OK... here's a thought... give it a go and it might surprize you:

Create an asp page that you will use as the include file on your local domain, but it must be an asp page, then put only this code in it:

Response.Redirect("http://www.whateverdomain.com")

Let me know if this works, which I'm pretty sure will...

[slyfox]

Oh, here's the code to grab a remote page's source if above doesn't work for you:

function GetHTML(strURL)
{
var objXMLHTTP = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

objXMLHTTP.Open("GET", strURL, false);
objXMLHTTP.Send();

var strReturn = objXMLHTTP.responseText;
objXMLHTTP.Close;
objXMLHTTP.Delete;

return strReturn;
}

Response.Write(GetHTML("http://www.whateverdomain.com"));

It's done in ASP JScript, just change it to ASP VBScript... it's easy but if you don't know how just ask.

Good luck