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Parsing source of a link? very Newbie

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Dec 27.2005

Is it possible to get the source code of a webpage and put it into a variable using Javascript? Here’s a simplification of what i want to be able to do:

[code]
<html>
<body>
<script type=”text/javascript”>

var newText = sourceCodeOf(“http://www.google.com”)

document.write(newText.length)
</script>
</body>
</html>
[/code]

If it is possible to do this, how might the sourceCodeOf function work?

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@CrazyMerlinDec 27.2005 — I'm sure there is but the only way I can think of now, is to have a function that saves the page and then a function that reads the saved page as raw text and not parse it.
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@SteveireauthorJan 04.2006 — How would a function save the page?
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@felgallJan 04.2006 — Javascript has no read and write functions so you will need to look at a server side language.
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@CharlesJan 04.2006 — There are some tricky ways to do this - you load the document in some other Window - but JavaScript has built in certain security restrictions that will not let you monkey with somebody else's page.
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