Hi all -

I need a way to include web content from one EXTERNAL site in another. For reasons having to do with institutional protocols, it cannot be done at the server level - it must be done client-side. I know I can use IFrames, but was wondering if there was another way it could be done using javascript? Or some other client-side way? I've been searching and searching the web and can't seem to find something definitive. TIA!

Doing it without an iframe would have to involve some kind of data-scraping, which could be done with a server-side code. The basic idea is to program a spider to read the HTML on the page and parse it according to your needs. If you can't do it server-side, use an iframe. I don't know of any way to do it with JavaScript, though there may be some methods I am not educated about. In general, JavaScript has a same origin policy, which means it isn't given access to data outside of the domain it is operating on.

Thanks for this, and sorry for the LONNNGGGG delay in responding. This is the first time I've had a chance to think about this issue in a few weeks.

That is my general understanding too. I've seen some sites discussing using scrollto, and Iframes, but I'm unsure about how the process works.

You could scrape the data on the client side with java script. It would work very much like AJAX. I don't know that it would be advisable, but possible, at least.