[conspire] scrolling question

[Patrick Killelea]

Hi Adrien,
thanks, but there are no anchors in the text. I guess I'll have to cache 
the page, add the anchor, and re-serve it from my own server. I worry a 
little about copyright issues though.

Patrick

Adrien Lamothe wrote:

>Hi Patrick,
>
>Two possibilities come to mind:
>
>The first method works if the text you want to go to
>contains an anchor frame, in the form:
>
><a name="gotohere">The text you want to jump to.</a>
>
>You can then refer to this point in the external web
>site using the form:
>
><a
>href="http://www.externalwebpage.com/pageyouwant/#gotohere"
>TARGET="_blank">Object you want to link to external
>page.</a>
>
>In this example, the TARGET="_blank" causes a new page
>to open, retaining the referencing page.
>
>This method only works if the external web page
>contains the anchor tag, and that tag is located where
>you want the user to go.
>
>The second method would be to use Perl's LWP package,
>to programmatically examine the external page, then
>use a regular expression to locate the text you want
>the user to see. I think that LWP is powerful enough
>to let you then jump to the page at that point. I
>haven't done this, but recall that Perl LWP can do
>these types of things. You should verify this with a
>Perl LWP expert (a good place to ask the question is a
>Perl Monger mailing list, the one I use is
>"http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland".) There
>is a Python package named "mechanize" that may also do
>this, you can find it at
>"http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/".
>
>Good luck,
>
>-Adrien
>
>
>--- Patrick Killelea <p at patrick.net> wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>I'd like to link to a page in a different DNS
>>domain, and then scroll 
>>down the user's browser automatically to show
>>certain text.
>>
>>Seems you cannot do that with Javascript unless it
>>is signed, which is a 
>>major pain and varies with different browsers.
>>Anyone else know a way to 
>>show specific text on someone else's web page?
>>
>>Thanks for any tips.
>>
>>Patrick
>>
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