HELP - Get Text Off Another Site

[Beacon]

Hi Guys

Our intranet is HTTPS:// now to show our share price we get the info from an external asp page run by another site which we dont have access too.
Except we have access too it's output.

How can i using ASP grab the output of that page and put it in a text file or display it in my aspx page without leaving the HTTPS zone.

At the moment users get a warning about non secure content.

any ideas
cheers
b

[Danial]

Hi Beacon,
I havent worked with HTTPS so dont know if my solution will work, but you can use MS XML HTTP Socket to connect to a remote site and get the output. I am sure you can parse the output to your need.

Here is what i use to map IP to Domain name.

Hope this helps.

Danial

<%
Server.ScriptTimeout = 90
 
 
Private Function IPLookUP(IP)
    dim URL
    URL = "http://www.hexillion.com/samples/AspLookup.asp?addr=" & IP
 
    Dim objXMLHTTP
    Dim ret
 
    Set objXMLHTTP = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
 
 
        objXMLHTTP.Open "POST", URL, False
 
        objXMLHTTP.Send
 
        ret = objXMLHTTP.ResponseText
 
        IPLookUP = ParseText(ret)
 
 
        Set objXMLHTTP = Nothing
 
End Function
 
function ParseText(txt)
    Dim pos1
    Dim pos2
 
    pos1 = InStr(1, txt, "canonical name")
 
    If pos1 > 0 Then
        pos1 = InStr(pos1, txt, "<strong>")
        pos2 = InStr(pos1 + 8, txt, "<")
 
 
        ParseText = Mid(txt, pos1 + 8, pos2 - pos1 - 8)
 
    End If
end function
%>

[Danial]

IF you want to put the returned out put to a text file, simply use FSO.

Dim fso, f1
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f1 = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", True)
f1.write (ret)

[Beacon]

Hi Danial

Thanks for your help.

Error Type:
(0x800C0005)
/ARG/quote.asp, line 18

Line 18 is:

objXMLHTTP.Send

I dont need to send any data to it?

cheers
b

[Beacon]

ok got it working thanks Danial.

Perfect

[Danial]

Originally posted by Beacon
ok got it working thanks Danial.

Perfect

You are welcome, gald it worked for you