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Eric Hymander
Had a unique (for me) problem and solved it as below - if you have a better
solution or suggestion, love to hear it. If you have NO solution, please
profit from my success.
NEEDED - to read data from a displayed page NOT on my domain, NOT owned by
me, but with a known layout. Collect various specific pieces of table data,
then apply that data within a form on a page in MY domain (or local).
Needed to do that with the press of one button. Multi-browser platform not
required. IE6 was the only constraint.
SOLUTION - add a button to the IE toolbar which launches a script. Script
reads current page displayed, collects required data. Script then does a
window.open() and writes out a small dynamic script to run in the new
window, now in a domain I can control. This new dynamic script creates its
own cookie containing the required data, then does a window.locate to where
the data needs to be (the form). The form page naturally now has no problem
reading the cookie.
A bit cloodgey, but works brilliantly without all those stupid "Access is
Denied" and "Permission Denied" crap which made me crazy all afternoon.
solution or suggestion, love to hear it. If you have NO solution, please
profit from my success.
NEEDED - to read data from a displayed page NOT on my domain, NOT owned by
me, but with a known layout. Collect various specific pieces of table data,
then apply that data within a form on a page in MY domain (or local).
Needed to do that with the press of one button. Multi-browser platform not
required. IE6 was the only constraint.
SOLUTION - add a button to the IE toolbar which launches a script. Script
reads current page displayed, collects required data. Script then does a
window.open() and writes out a small dynamic script to run in the new
window, now in a domain I can control. This new dynamic script creates its
own cookie containing the required data, then does a window.locate to where
the data needs to be (the form). The form page naturally now has no problem
reading the cookie.
A bit cloodgey, but works brilliantly without all those stupid "Access is
Denied" and "Permission Denied" crap which made me crazy all afternoon.