How to actively include this on a web page?...

Bard

Using ASP, but not having MSXML Parser V.3 available as yet on the server, how would I go about actively including the HTML code from http://www.boards.ie/latest.txt on a web page of my own? ... anyone?

Cloud

Is http://www.boards.ie/raw.txt of any use?

John.
--
Who knows nothing about ASP.

Bard

Yes and no... If I had the MS XML Parser v.3 installed on the server (which I don't) I could parse in that file and effect the display of it any way I wanted... but I don't - I'm looking for another way of doing it - if possible - so I can apply my own styles, etc. to it.

May not be another way- I'm just curious, as ever.

Enygma

Why not parse the file yourself?
There's a Perl script somewhere on this board that does it if you're interested.
(title of thread: Boards.ie feed?)

Found this link in one of the Q threads below too, might be of some use.

http://aspwire.com/brief.asp?4054

Bard

I'd really rather do it with ASP and not Perl. Perl is not and won't be installed on the server in question. The ASP example you gave would be fine- I'd do it with fSo, if only the file I was parsing was on the same server as my web site, but it's not on the same server - it's that specific file on boards.ie

Seems the most reliable way of doing it is to use something like the HTTP element of the XML Parser (v.3) to read in the contents of a specific URL into a string and then parse that out using ASP. Unfortunately it's only v.2.5 of the XML Parser installed on the server in question and until the owners of the server (i.e.: my employers) are fully happy that there's no security risk, etc. with upgrading this to v.3 or installing v.3 alongside it, then that's the way it's staying. This is a live production server and a few of the sites running on it are using XML. Therefore an upgrade there might cause downtime to these live sites (which is undesirable).

Basically I'm looking for a way to effectively do an "include" of a file which is not on the same server as my site and seamlessly integrate that HTML into my page. I know it's possible, - I just have to do it without the XML Parser v.3.

dogs

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
I'd do it with fSo, if only the file I was parsing was on the
same server as my web site, but it's not on the same server - it's
that specific file on boards.ie
</font>

Admittedly, I don't know a thing about ASP, but couldn't your
script just retrieve the file and store it locally ?
Just re-retrieve once its 15 minutes old or some such ?

PhilipMarlowe

Not sure how useful these links might be...

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/071199-1.shtml
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/031000-1.shtml

tmcd

I know you said Asp..... using ie + html Have you considered <iframe src="http://www.boards.ie/latest.txt&quot; title=""> <!-- Alternate content for non-supporting browsers -->
?

tmcd

I forgot to add the closing tag <iframe>

Bard

Nope... I'm intending to avoid browser specific code - IFRAME is only properly supported by IE4 and above or Netscape6/Mozilla. ... Besides, it's not the required effect- I want to put the code itself within the code of my own web page- just like an include.

One of those pages on the 4Guys site is promising.

PhilipMarlowe

I tried the 4guys one... you have to download and install (register) a .dll
but it worked no problem on my PWS using the latest.txt file...
As regarding manipulating how the thing looks though, unless you can just do it with a style sheet linked to your page, I wouldn't have a clue.... I'll leave that to the pros..
BTW, if you did use an iframe, wouldn't the links all open up by default in the iframe..? to lazy to try or even to care for that matter...
also, the first link on the latest.txt, ie the one to bulletin/index.html is relative, so it causes a problem when you include it...

or something...™