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Anyway to grab entire HTML page with javascript?
- Thread starter tlhawkins
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Off-hand, one can think of at least two methods both with some limitation(s).
[tt]
function doit() {
if (window.ActiveXObject) {
var oxmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.xmlhttp");
} else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
var oxmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
oxmlhttp.open("GET",window.location,false);
oxmlhttp.send(null);
var s=oxmlhttp.responseText;
oxmlhttp=null;
alert(s);
}
function doit2() {
var s="<head>\n"+document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].innerHTML+"\n</head>\n";
s+="<body>\n"+document.body.innerHTML+"\n</body>\n";
alert(s);
}[/tt]
[tt]
function doit() {
if (window.ActiveXObject) {
var oxmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.xmlhttp");
} else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
var oxmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
oxmlhttp.open("GET",window.location,false);
oxmlhttp.send(null);
var s=oxmlhttp.responseText;
oxmlhttp=null;
alert(s);
}
function doit2() {
var s="<head>\n"+document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].innerHTML+"\n</head>\n";
s+="<body>\n"+document.body.innerHTML+"\n</body>\n";
alert(s);
}[/tt]
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- Thread starter
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Maybe I don't?
The problem I see with function doit() is that it requires time to completely reload the page but you get a complete page, unless of course there is some session/cookie work that will keep the page from loading again, for instance if it was a purchase process and a confirmation page, hopefully it won't do another purchase...
on the other hand doit2() is not goint to get the:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "
DocType tag. ALSO, if the page is not well formed HTML there could be trouble, for instance a page with 2 body tags (some interstitial pages use this method) then it's going to take more work to get the HTML correct.
Are there other limitations besides these? or is there a way to get the DOCTYPE tag with doit2()?
Thanks
The problem I see with function doit() is that it requires time to completely reload the page but you get a complete page, unless of course there is some session/cookie work that will keep the page from loading again, for instance if it was a purchase process and a confirmation page, hopefully it won't do another purchase...
on the other hand doit2() is not goint to get the:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "
DocType tag. ALSO, if the page is not well formed HTML there could be trouble, for instance a page with 2 body tags (some interstitial pages use this method) then it's going to take more work to get the HTML correct.
Are there other limitations besides these? or is there a way to get the DOCTYPE tag with doit2()?
Thanks
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