Possible to include SSI in ASP page using full URL?

[ohaya]

Hi,

We want to include some SSI in our ASP pages, but where the SSI is
located on a different server, and so we need to be able to access the
SSI using a full URL, as opposed to a local file reference or relative
URL.

The "include" apparently doesn't allow this, so I was wondering if
anyone knows away to accomplish this?

Thanks!

Jim

[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed ohaya <oh***@cox.netwriting in
news:05**********************************@q26g2000 prq.googlegroups.com:

Hi,

We want to include some SSI in our ASP pages, but where the SSI is
located on a different server, and so we need to be able to access the
SSI using a full URL, as opposed to a local file reference or relative
URL.

The "include" apparently doesn't allow this, so I was wondering if
anyone knows away to accomplish this?

Thanks!

Jim

AFAIK, there is no way to do this other than XMLHTTP or maybe an Iframe
(frowned upon, however).

--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
Please respond to the group so others can share

[ohaya]

Adrienne Boswell wrote:

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed ohaya <oh***@cox.netwriting in
news:05**********************************@q26g2000 prq.googlegroups.com:

>Hi,

We want to include some SSI in our ASP pages, but where the SSI is
located on a different server, and so we need to be able to access the
SSI using a full URL, as opposed to a local file reference or relative
URL.

The "include" apparently doesn't allow this, so I was wondering if
anyone knows away to accomplish this?

Thanks!

Jim

AFAIK, there is no way to do this other than XMLHTTP or maybe an Iframe
(frowned upon, however).

Adrienne,

Thanks for the pointer re. XMLHttp. That *almost* did it, but
unfortunately, not quite :(...

I'm doing the XMLHttp call on the server-side, in an ASP page, and I was
able to GET the SSI using XMLHttp, but, the SSI includes links for
images and for css.

The images on the final page are appearing as "red X'es".

When I did view source on the final page, it looks like it's using my
hostname as the hostname in the URLs that it's using to GET the images.

In other words, the SSI has something like:

<IMG src="/icons/brand.gif"...

but on the final page served/view source it has:

<IMG src="http://myhost/icons/brand.gif"...

I can't really tell, but I think the same thing is happening with the
references/links for the css that is in the SSI that I'm getting.

Is there a way to resolve this problem?

Maybe in my ASP, I can parse the hostname part of the image and css URLs
before doing the Response.Write?

Would that work??

Any other ideas?

Jim

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

ohaya wrote:

Adrienne,

Thanks for the pointer re. XMLHttp. That *almost* did it, but
unfortunately, not quite :(...

I'm doing the XMLHttp call on the server-side, in an ASP page, and I
was able to GET the SSI using XMLHttp, but, the SSI includes links for
images and for css.

The images on the final page are appearing as "red X'es".

When I did view source on the final page, it looks like it's using my
hostname as the hostname in the URLs that it's using to GET the
images.

In other words, the SSI has something like:

<IMG src="/icons/brand.gif"...

but on the final page served/view source it has:

<IMG src="http://myhost/icons/brand.gif"...

I can't really tell, but I think the same thing is happening with the
references/links for the css that is in the SSI that I'm getting.

Is there a way to resolve this problem?

Maybe in my ASP, I can parse the hostname part of the image and css
URLs before doing the Response.Write?

Do you have any control over that remote page so you can change those
relative links to absolute links? If not, you will have to parse and
replace the relative links with absolute links.

--
Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.

[ohaya]

Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote:

ohaya wrote:

>Adrienne,

Thanks for the pointer re. XMLHttp. That *almost* did it, but
unfortunately, not quite :(...

I'm doing the XMLHttp call on the server-side, in an ASP page, and I
was able to GET the SSI using XMLHttp, but, the SSI includes links for
images and for css.

The images on the final page are appearing as "red X'es".

When I did view source on the final page, it looks like it's using my
hostname as the hostname in the URLs that it's using to GET the
images.

In other words, the SSI has something like:

<IMG src="/icons/brand.gif"...

but on the final page served/view source it has:

<IMG src="http://myhost/icons/brand.gif"...

I can't really tell, but I think the same thing is happening with the
references/links for the css that is in the SSI that I'm getting.

Is there a way to resolve this problem?

Maybe in my ASP, I can parse the hostname part of the image and css
URLs before doing the Response.Write?

Do you have any control over that remote page so you can change those
relative links to absolute links? If not, you will have to parse and
replace the relative links with absolute links.

Rob,

Sorry, I forgot to answer your question directly. "No", we don't have
direct control over the content in the SSI. The SSI content is under
control of a different group, and is a kind of centralized resource in
our organization.

Jim

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

ohaya wrote:

Rob,

Sorry, I forgot to answer your question directly. "No", we don't have
direct control over the content in the SSI. The SSI content is under
control of a different group, and is a kind of centralized resource in
our organization.

No worries: I assumed that was the case given your decision to parse/edit
the urls.

--
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET - 2004-2007
Please reply to the newsgroup. This email account is my spam trap so I
don't check it very often. If you must reply off-line, then remove the
"NO SPAM"

[Anthony Jones]

"ohaya" <oh***@cox.netwrote in message
news:OU**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

ohaya wrote:

I have:

<%
If value_found = True Then
Dim xml_header
Set xml_header = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
xml_header.Open "GET", value & "/ssi/header.ssi", False
xml_header.Send 'do the HTTP GET

Dim xyz_header
xyz_header = xml_header.responseText
Response.Write xml_header.responseText

Response.flush

Set xml_header = Nothing
End If

Hopefully, this'll continue to be consistent.

Response.flush is changing the timing of delivery. Ordinarily
Response.Writes just fill a local buffer and only after the script is
finished is the entire buffer sent to the client. With Response.Flush you
are sending content earlier giving the browser a chance to render what has
been sent so far. However the final HTML delivered should be the same so
the browser ought to be presenting the same result.

BTW, You should not be using Microsoft.XMLHTTP in ASP, use
MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.3..0 which is designed to be used in such Server based
scenarios.

--
Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

[ohaya]

Anthony Jones wrote:

"ohaya" <oh***@cox.netwrote in message
news:OU**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>ohaya wrote:

I have:

<%
If value_found = True Then
Dim xml_header
Set xml_header = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
xml_header.Open "GET", value & "/ssi/header.ssi", False
xml_header.Send 'do the HTTP GET

Dim xyz_header
xyz_header = xml_header.responseText
Response.Write xml_header.responseText

Response.flush

Set xml_header = Nothing
End If

Hopefully, this'll continue to be consistent.

Response.flush is changing the timing of delivery. Ordinarily
Response.Writes just fill a local buffer and only after the script is
finished is the entire buffer sent to the client. With Response.Flush
you are sending content earlier giving the browser a chance to render
what has been sent so far. However the final HTML delivered should be
the same so the browser ought to be presenting the same result.

BTW, You should not be using Microsoft.XMLHTTP in ASP, use
MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.3..0 which is designed to be used in such Server
based scenarios.

Anthony,

Thanks. We'll take a look at MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.

Jim