Reading a remote file or page?

[Adrian]

Hi
I have some local pages (on PC harddisk) that act as a user interface
and a set of JS files that controls it all. I now want to be able to access
a remote web server to read a txt file and use the result in my local
script.

eg

Remote text file i.e. conf.txt

XYZ http:\\www.xyz.com\test?me=you

ABC http:\\www.abc.com\test

end

the file is to be opened and read from the remote server my interface would
then know when a user types XYZ <enter> to open
http:\\www.xyz.com\test?me=you within a frame.

so how do I open read and close a remote file say www.test.com/config.txt ?

thanks

 

[Evertjan.]

Adrian wrote on 17 jan 2006 in comp.lang.javascript:

I have some local pages (on PC harddisk) that act as a user interface
and a set of JS files that controls it all. I now want to be able to
access a remote web server to read a txt file and use the result in my
local script.

In IE:

function getUrl(url) {
var http = new ActiveXObject("microsoft.xmlhttp");
http.open("GET",url,false);
http.send();
return http.responseText;
}

theFile = getUrl('http://myServer.com/myFile.txt')

===============

You will need to change the IE security settings in
options->advanced->"Allow active content..my computer",
I seem to remember.

 

[Adrian]

Thank you Evertjan.

Adrian wrote on 17 jan 2006 in comp.lang.javascript:


In IE:

function getUrl(url) {
var http = new ActiveXObject("microsoft.xmlhttp");
http.open("GET",url,false);
http.send();
return http.responseText;
}

theFile = getUrl('http://myServer.com/myFile.txt')

===============

You will need to change the IE security settings in
options->advanced->"Allow active content..my computer",
I seem to remember.