store source code in a variable

[TimSki]

Hi,

I can easily display the page source by simply calling

window.location = "view-source:http://www.example.com";

but how can i store the source code into a variable which i can work with.

I don;t want to use ajax as i will get the cross domain problem.

Thanks

[limweizhong]

You could only do that yourself... possibly automatically (using SendKeys or using a .hta file extension locally), but you cannot create a website that does that (browsers know what zone the user is in)

[Dormilich]

to work with such a page, wouldn’t it be easier to load that document?

once you have that it’s easy to get the source as string

// though the intended purpose of this is somewhat specialized…
Element.prototype.getString = function()
{
    var tag = this.tagName;
    var str = "<" + tag;
    var atb = this.attributes;
    for (var l, i=0, l=atb.length; i<l; i++) {
        if (i in atb) {
            str += " " + atb[i].name + '="' + atb[i].value + '"';
        }
    }
    var cn  = this.childNodes;
    if (0 == cn.length) {
        return str + "/>";
    } else {
        str += ">";
    }
    for (var l, i=0, l=cn.length; i<l; i++) {
        if (3 == cn[i].nodeType || 4 == cn[i].nodeType) {
            if (String.trim) {
                str += cn[i].data.trim();
            } else {
                str += cn[i].data;
            }
        }
        else if (1 == cn[i].nodeType) {
            str += cn[i].getString();
        }
    }
    return str + "</" + tag + ">";
}