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Seldimi · April 6 '09, 11:11 AM (#1)

Hello... i was asked from my university to create a project about getting the DOM or HTML from a user submited page on Perl or c++.... but I am free to use any language I want...
the results etc wil be published with php of course..

I did a small search on google but couldnt find a lot of help... any tips, ideas etc?

**Shadowfiend** · April 6 '09, 11:32 PM (#2)

Do they submit it as in upload the page or submit a URI? If the latter, you'll have to do some interesting juggling. The best way would probably be to open the URI using PHP (with the fopen wrappers, ideally), then send that back to the script (either in an iframe or through an AJAX call). Then you can use Javascript to dig into the DOM. You can't just drop the page in an iframe directly and then use JS to read it, as the same-origin policy will block you from accessing the other site's DOM in the iframe.