Your best bet may be to create a VB component that "wraps" the 
functionality
of something like the MSWinsock control or the WebBrowser control or 
some
other method to retrieve files across a network.  Use a method of this
component to retrieve content from the specified URL and return the 
string
representation of the retrieved file.

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Kyle M. Burns, MCSD, MCT
ECommerce Technology Manager
Centra Credit Union
kburns@c...



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom=E0s Jim=E9nez Lozano [mailto:tomas@v...]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 8:10 AM
To: HTML Code Clinic
Subject: [html_code_clinic] including remote HTML code


Hi friends,

Can anyone help me to include remote HTML code within a  table in my 
page?

I'm trying to fill a table's TD with external HTML content. I suppose 
this
is not  an
unusual thing mostly if you try to place a banner in your  site. This 
is
not my case, we are developing a portal and we need to include
third-parties content. What we need is to call an URL and embed its 
HTML in
our page.

Let me explain you the steps I've followed before falling in despair:

1. Frames doesn't  apply because we need to embed the HTML into a 
dynamic
-generated table

2. As we are developing  ASP pages, we have tried to use the html 
INCLUDE
directive but we realized you can only include local files.

3.A good approach is to use <IFRAME> tag but it only works in IE and we
need it to run
in Netscape 4.x too.(An IFRAME functionality for Netscape is exactly 
what
we are looking for)

4. I've tried de Netscape's <ILAYER> tag but haven't achieved good 
results.
Netscape browser behaves in a very strange way  when the file you are
trying to include as src of the  <ILAYER> tag contains a table itself. 
(It
works ok if the include file holds no table inside)

5. We are now looking for something like a JS 's document.write('URL') 
with
a URL instead of a string. I can't call a remote JS script that using
<script language=3D"JavaScript"
src=3D"http://www.remoteserver.com/jssourcefile.js"> because what I 
want to
include is a third-party development and we don=B4t know if I'm calling 
a cgi,
a
servlet, an HTML page, ... We need it to be a general technique!!



Thanks for your patience,

Tom=E0s