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Apr 16.2004

Is it possible to get data from an external source like a text file using javascript?

What I am looking to do is to pull data from a text from and put it into a textarea box.

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@crh3675Apr 16.2004 — <i>
</i>&lt;html&gt;
&lt;script type="Text/javascript"&gt;var xmlhttp
/*@cc_on @*/
/*@if (@_jscript_version &gt;= 5)
try {
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")
} catch (e) {
try {
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
} catch (E) {
xmlhttp=false
}
}
@else
xmlhttp=false
@end @*/
if (!xmlhttp) {
try {
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
} catch (e) {
xmlhttp=false
}
}

function loadXML(url){
xmlhttp.open("GET", url,true);
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
document.forms[0].theText.value=xmlhttp.responseText
}
}
xmlhttp.send(null)
}
&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;body onload="loadXML('http://www.google.com')"&gt;

&lt;form&gt;
&lt;textarea id="theText" cols="55" rows="15"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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