Topic: XML imports accross domain (Page 1 of 1)

I have an external xml file on another domain which i need to import and pass. All the JS solutions i have looked at including AJAX do not seem to work - i belive this to be a security feature with JS imports where the file has to be on the same domain.

Is there an easy solution?

Cheers

Ben

Yep for security reasons cross site request are not allowed.
However you can bypass that using a server side script as a proxy ... at the cost of higher latency and more bandwidth usage.

i wish i knew what a server side script as a proxy was!

after a biot of googling it seems there are no simple cut 'n' paste scripts out there, that i can find at least

any idea's? maybe something that includes an XML Passer

Ben

Ben Corke | IT Recruitment Consultant | ben@cerebra.co.uk | www.cerebra.co.uk

Server side proxy

You call instead of
http://otherdomain.com/xmlFile

http://yourdomain.com/xmlFile.php

xmlFile.php then contains the follwing

$strXmlData = fetchRemoteURL ( "http://otherdomain.com/xmlFile" ); //preferably using curl, though a simple fopen, fread() loop might do
header ( "content-type: text/xml" );
print $strXmlData;

so long,

->Tyberius Prime

OK, following TP's post, I created a php file and included the script above (simply swapping the url with mine) and it did not work - then guessing TP's reference //preferably using CURL I assumed that TP wants me to learn some PHP.... i tried again without much success...


Then I though that I could use some sort of RSS parser script or XML scroller but the output is not RSS compliant and the content is on another domain.

I wish to grab the output of a url like http://otherdomain/xml.php?number=20 and display it within a html page on my domain - surely this should be simple!

can anyone help? please!

Cheers

Uh, of course fetchRemoteURL needs to be coded by you .

here's a very simple implementation, it might be enough, or it might not.

function fetchRemoteURL ( $strURL ) 
{
 $strResult = '';
 $fh = fopen ( $strURL, "rb");
  if ( $fh ) 
  {
     while ( !feof ( $fh ) ) 
       $strResult .= fread ( $fh, 8192 ) ;
  }
 return $strResult;

}

But of course it's not tested or anything.

So long,

->Tyberius Prime

I need to learn some PHP me thinks

Ben Corke | IT Recruitment Consultant | ben@cerebra.co.uk | www.cerebra.co.uk

I have an example of a proxy script that uses cURL as part of a tutorial on making an RSS reader using Flash (Flash has pretty tight sandbox rules too). I had to use cURL because DreamHost stopped supporting readfile(). You might be able to make some use of it:

http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/rssReader12.html