Capturing generated HTML

[Glasgow]

As ASP generates its HTML to render in a browser, is there any way of capturing that final HTML so that, for example, a copy of the information displayed can be inserted into an email that is essentially a dump of the page presented to the end user?

I hope that makes sense!

Thanks in advance.

 

[Glasgow]

A little further searching suggests using the XMLHTTP Object. I'll have a play...

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/110100-1.shtml

 

[HowardMarks]

Hiya

I have some code using JMail/XMLhttp which does this exact thing

dim objXMLHTTP 
set objXMLHTTP = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") 
objXMLHTTP.Open "GET","[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysite.com/myhtmlpage.html,[/URL] false 
objXMLHTTP.SetRequestHeader "Content-type", "text/html" 
objXMLHTTP.Send
Dim strMsg : strMsg = objXMLHTTP.ResponseText
Dim msg
set msg = Server.CreateOBject( "JMail.Message" )
msg.Logging = true
msg.silent = false
msg.From = "me@mysite.com"		
msg.AddRecipient "myemailrecipient@mysite.com"
msg.Subject = "Email Subject"
msg.HTMLBody = cstr(strMsg)
msg.Send("mymailserver")

hope this is of some use

Nick (Webmaster)

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[Glasgow]

I've had a go but I don't think this is what I need. I want to capture the precise HTML about to be or just rendered to the user's browser - this could include data entered by that user which has been stored in session variables and re-displayed in the appropriate fields.

I have a feeling that using this mechanism will effectively return HTML as if it were a separate session - so none of the variables I have stored are available.

Any thoughts?

 

[HowardMarks]

Hmm yes i see what you mean.
I didn't have that problem in my code as I recorded the specific information to a database, and then called the page with a specific ID to recall the information for that user. Perhaps this might work for your project?

Failing that, anyone got any other ideas?

Nick (Webmaster)

http://www.npfx.com

http://www.artswales.org

 

[Glasgow]

Thanks for your replies, Nick.

The theory appears to be confirmed when I insert a
Response.Write Session.SessionId in the page

- i.e. it shows a different session in the original page from the HTML generated by the XMLHTTP call. So close but so far!

I can't use a database to retrieve the data but there are alternatives available to me. It just turns it into a somewhat larger job!