Hello,

I have to do a script at work that does this:

I have one page let's call it "FerrariCalifornia.htm" where I write news in it about the car. In it, I have stored a variable called datefr which gets document.lastModified.

I have another one called Press releases where all the cars I have are stored in a HTML table. I want to somehow get the var datefr in that page to show when the document was last modified.

Basically I need to get the lastModified property from another HTML page. Is there anyway to do this?

I have no other solutions than Javascript, it's for a intranet website, no servers are installed, just IE.

Thanks

You could probably just store the information inside of a cookie: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html, however, I'm not sure that the lastModified property is going to work without a server, since it is based on information transmitted to the browser from the server: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/lastmod.html

Hmm..not really sure what u are trying to do, but maybe u can load second page into the iframe 1px 1px and get document.lastModified property from it.

Originally Posted by wayfarer07

You could probably just store the information inside of a cookie: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html, however, I'm not sure that the lastModified property is going to work without a server, since it is based on information transmitted to the browser from the server: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/lastmod.html

Well there is a server but I can't use any server side script such as PHP.

Originally Posted by svirid

Hmm..not really sure what u are trying to do, but maybe u can load second page into the iframe 1px 1px and get document.lastModified property from it.

That would be an idea but I have 18 pages I must get there lastModified...

Basically I have a index page where I display last update of 18 pages linked on the index. I'd like to get the lastModified from those pages to update the index as soon as I update the page.

Why don't you use the HEAD request of an ajax call ?
You can get the server values for the page size?

I've first heard about it there: http://www.jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html
I've found some more here: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...ro3/#listing10

Basically, an HEAD request doesn't request the data of the page, but the headers the server would serve back on an answer.
The "last modified" value should be in there...

From the second link:

Useful HEAD requests


One area where you'll find a HEAD request useful is to check the content length or even the content type. This allows you to determine if a huge amount of data will be sent back to process a request or if the server will try to return binary data instead of HTML, text, or XML (which are all three much easier to process in JavaScript than binary data).

In these cases, you just use the appropriate header name and pass it to the getResponseHeader() method on the XMLHttpRequest object. So to get the length of a response, just call request.getResponseHeader("Content-Length");. To get the content type, use request.getResponseHeader("Content-Type");.