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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