Reading a file from another website

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July 21st, 2005, 08:46 AM

tac

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Reading a file from another website

How can I do something like this in Coldfusion to return the HTML sourcecode of the link:

Code:

<cffile action="read" file="http://www.google.com" variable="googleSourceCode">

In PHP you can do the following:

PHP Code:


		
			
 $handle = fopen("http://www.google.com", "rb");

$contents = '';

while (!feof($handle)) {

  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);

}

fclose($handle);

July 21st, 2005, 10:11 AM

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Assuming your server supports this. Look into cfhttp to pull the Web page in question.

<cfhttp url="http://www.yahoo.com" resolveurl="yes"></cfhttp>

then report the results using HTMLcodeFormat().

July 21st, 2005, 10:13 AM

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I'm not sure what the if statement in your PHP code is doing, but the CFHTTP call should return you the actual source code of whatever URL you call. Can you elaborate?

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July 21st, 2005, 03:33 PM

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That worked well, although it should be added that the variable the sourcecode is stored in is #cfhttp.fileContent#. And I did not use HTMLcodeFormat() becasue I was printing out the sourcecode as HTML in another page, that is as opposed to printing out the sourcecode as readable text for the user to examine.

Also, i'm making another post on how to find the server's IP address.

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