How do I Get The HTML Source of Any Web Page

[SwapnilD]

How can I get the HTML source of any web page.

[Dormilich]

Firefox: Ctrl + u
Safari + Chrome: Crtl + Alt + u

[SwapnilD]

Sorry, I didn't explain it well.
I want to get the source code of page dynamically/problematically/through javascript etc.

below is code I tried to achieve the task but it does not and giving me error "ACCESS DENIED"

      <script language=javascript>
var xmlHttp
 
 function DecodeThisVIN()
 {
 
   url = "www.XYZ.COM"
 
 
 xmlHttp=GetXmlHttpObject();
 
   xmlHttp.open("GET",url,false); //This is the line where I'm getting error
 
 
   var getstatus = xml.status;
 
 
   alert(getstatus);
 
 }
 
 
 function GetXmlHttpObject()
  {
  var xmlHttp=null;
  try
  {
  // Firefox, Opera 8.0+, Safari
  xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
  catch (e)
  {
  // Internet Explorer
  try
   {
   xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
   }
  catch (e)
   {
   xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
   }
  }
  return xmlHttp;
  }
</script> 
 

[Dormilich]

AJAX adheres to the "Same Origin Policy" (SOP), that means, it only fetches data from the same domain (for security reasons).

[SwapnilD]

Okay, do you know another way do the above mentioned task?

[Dormilich]

by a server side language.

[SwapnilD]

@Dormilich
I tried it with asp but still getting error.

 Dim xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP") 
    xmlhttp.open ("GET", url, true)
   xmlhttp.send ("")
    Response.write (xmlhttp.responseText)
    xmlhttp = nothing 
 

Please note for above code xmlHTTP has third parameter as TRUE. In this case I get error "The data necessary to complete this operation is not yet available."

If I make it "FALSE" then get error "A connection with the server could not be established "

[Dormilich]

this seems to be C# or something similar, where I can’t tell anything about it.

[jkmyoung]

Is there a specific reason you're using ASP? There are any number of simpler alternatives. What languages are you restricted to?