Reading "View Source" of an HTML page using VBScript....

[Matt Rosenburg]

To all,

I'm looking for a way, via a VBScript, to read the contents of an .HTML
page. Basically, I'm looking for the programatic equivalent of "View Source"
in IE.

I have a VB Script that launches IE in "Kiosk" mode when my users log in,
and when they navigate to a page that contains a certain text phrase, I want
IE to close. I have the logic built in to close IE, but I can only get it to
work based on the URL that the users' browser is currently pointing at. I
can't parse out the text of the HTML file that they're viewing.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Regards,

Matt Rosenburg

[McKirahan]

"Matt Rosenburg" <MattRo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:294AC8EE-9023-4791...@microsoft.com...

I don't fully understand what you're trying to do.

The code below (watch for word-wrap) does the following:

1) Opens a Web page in kiosk (fullscreen) mode
2) Retrieves and displays the URL of the page
(even though it's already known via "cURL")

Option Explicit
'*
'* Declare Constants
'*
Const cVBS = "kiosk.vbs"
Const cURL = "http://www.google.com/"
'*
'* Open URL
'*
Dim objIEA
Set objIEA = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
objIEA.Navigate cURL
objIEA.FullScreen = True
objIEA.Visible = True
While objIEA.Busy
Wend
'*
'* Show URL
'*
Dim objIED
Set objIED = objIEA.document
WScript.Echo objIED.Location
'*
'* Destroy Objects
'*
Set objIED = Nothing
Set objIEA = Nothing

You can use XMLHTTP to retrieve the source of the page and parse it.

But you want to retrieve the source of each page that the user goes to...?

[mr_unreliable]

Matt, depending on exactly what you want to do, there are several ways
to communicate with your "page-of-choice".

If you have access to the html source, one crude/simple way is to add
a "hidden" element to the page in question.

Then, have your script detect onload events, and when the page is loaded:

If (document.getElementById("hiddenElement").Value = "quit") then...

Another (more sophisticated) method is to set some event handler on
the page in question to call a subroutine in your script:

Set document.getElementById("pageButton").onClick = GetRef("mySub")

You could then click the button yourself (using the Click method).

As you know, a page can't close itself, your script must do that.

cheers, jw
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