Re: Sharing of password protected pages

I may be wrong but isn't this what XML supposed to help with???


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marty Landman" <marty(at)face2interface.com>
To: <hwg-software-digest(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:14 PM
Subject: Sharing of password protected pages


> "Linda Titus" <ltitus(at)mindspring.com> wrote :
>
>  > He would like to incorporate the wescreen.com form pages into his site
so
>  > that he could have his _clients_ type in their own information. He
doesn't
>  > want his clients to know that they are actually using pages connected
to the
>  > wescreen.com site. BTW, wescreen.com is very agreeable to all this.
They
>  > will still be getting paid the same amount by my client.
>
>  > I know that I can make a page of my client's site framed, so that it
can
>  > bring wescreen.com's pages into my client's site yet make it appear
that
>  > visitors are still on my client's site.  But when a visitor puts the
pointer
>  > over a link on a wescreen.com page, won't the full URL appear (Ex.
>  > http://www.wescreen.com/drivingrecord.html) thus divulging to the
visitor
>  > that they are getting a page from the wescreen.com site?  Is there a
way
>  > around this?
>
> Hi Linda.
>
> This can all be done using Perl's LWP package, which will allow a program
> to fetch the HTML for a webpage internally and then render it to your
> target site after suitably modifying it.
>
> Likewise LWP can be used to Post a response from a form onto another site.
> Since the owner of the other site, wescreen.com is all in favor of this
> arrangement it's totally doable. I've done it before and it's easy, as
long
> as you're not wanting more than a little customization. With more
> customization comes more work of course.
>
> The caveat here is that the program is written relying on another site's
> behavior. Therefore any changes to the relevant pages on wescreen.com will
> impact your site's pages, and require changes to accommodate this. Just so
> you understand.
>
> HTH,
>
> Marty
>
>
>

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