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Dave Haygood

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Jul 16, 2003, 4:31:15 PM7/16/03
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Is it possible to get the HTML source that is currently in an Internet
browser from within Powerbuilder? I know that you can request the
source using GetURL, but can you grab what is already in the browser
buffer?

Dave Haygood
The Seacat Group
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Dave Haygood

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Jul 17, 2003, 11:49:45 AM7/17/03
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Our client has users who are making requests and interacting with
suppliers on the internet. After browsing the website and filling in
forms, some data is returned to the browser in the way of a
confirmation or notification. The user wants us to then capture that
source and deal with storing it. I can't use GetURL because if I send
back that custom URL to re-retrieve the data the suppliers website
returns a timed out message because that data was intended only for
the user they returned it to. Suppliers want thousands of dollars for
modifying their websites to do alternate server to server
transmissions so we thought this might be a good way of handling the
data coming back.

The standard browser we would code for would be IE, but we may not
have control over that either.

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 04:10:14 -0400, "Boris Gasin [TeamSybase]"
<NOSPAM...@dynamictechgroup.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:31:15 -0700, Dave Haygood <da...@seacat.com>
>wrote:


>
>>Is it possible to get the HTML source that is currently in an Internet
>>browser from within Powerbuilder? I know that you can request the
>>source using GetURL, but can you grab what is already in the browser
>>buffer?
>

>I'd stick with GetURL. Going directly to the browser may not be
>reliable. For ex. Which browser instance did you want to grab the
>data from? Will the users always use the same browser program?
>
>Could you elaborate on the requirement?
>
> Boris Gasin [TeamSybase]
> mailto:bga...@dynamictechgroup.com
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Boris Gasin [TeamSybase]

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Jul 17, 2003, 4:10:14 AM7/17/03
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:31:15 -0700, Dave Haygood <da...@seacat.com>
wrote:

>Is it possible to get the HTML source that is currently in an Internet


>browser from within Powerbuilder? I know that you can request the
>source using GetURL, but can you grab what is already in the browser
>buffer?

I'd stick with GetURL. Going directly to the browser may not be

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