[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: HTTPAPI and Frames

Sender: "Elbert Cook" <elbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I think my problem is with the .asp code thats in the frames.

Below is the page that I'm receiving. However if I use a web brower and goto
the same page the URL eventually changes to
client_functions.asp?f=credit and the line item data is displayed.

However I only get the column headers if Httpapi gets
client_functions.asp?f=credit directly.
I've tried the other links in the frame statements but I never get
redirected to the appropriate page.

I assume it will be unlikely that I can retrieve that page that I need
without talking to the company that wrote the canned software for the banks.

Thanks for the assistance,

<html><head><title>(Accounts Receivable System)</title></head>
<frameset rows="85,*,1,1" framespacing="0" border="0" frameborder="0">
  <frame name="headermenu" noresize target="main" src="menu.asp?f=menu">
  <frame name="main" src="banners.asp">
  <frame name="js" scrolling="no" noresize target="main"
src="client_functions.asp?f=loadjs">
  <frame name="active" scrolling="no" noresize target="main"
src="client_functions.asp?f=setactive">
</frameset>

<noframes>
<body>
<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</html>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Klement" <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: HTTPAPI and Frames


> Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Hi Elbert,
>
> > I connect to our bank to download a statement and the page I retrieve
sais
> > "Your browser doesn't support Frames"
>
> HTTPAPI only transfers documents using the HTTP protocol.  It's not a web
> browser, it neither interprets the contents of the web page that you
> download, nor tries to display it.
>
> If you want your application to behave in the same manner as a web
> browser, then you have to intepret the HTML that you download and act upon
> it.
>
> When a web browser downloads an HTML document for a page with frames, that
> HTML document tells it what frames to create and the URLs for the
> documents that are to be loaded into each frame.
>
> For example.  Let's say I'm connected to http://www.example.org/test.html
> The file called test.html will look something like this:
>
> <html>
> <frameset cols = "10%, 80%,*">
>   <noframes>
>      <body>You <b>must</b> use a browser that can display frames!</body>
>   </noframes>
>   <frame src ="navigation.html">
>   <frame src ="main.html">
>   <frame src ="rightbar.html">
> </frameset>
> </html>
>
> The browser interprets this file in order to display it.  It sees that it
> needs to create one frame that's 10% of the window, another frame that's
> 80% of the window, and a final frame that's whatever is left.
>
> Into the left frame, it loads http://www.example.org/navigation.html
> Into the middle frame, http://www.example.org/main.html
> and into the right frame, http://www.example.org/rightbar.html
>
> > The webpage has the column headers in one frame, and the line item data
in a
> > different frame.
> >
> > Can HTTPAPI capture the line item data from the secondary frame?
>
> If you want to do the same thing with HTTPAPI, you neeed to interpret the
> HTML document, find the <frame> tags, and get the URLs from them.   Then,
> use HTTPAPI to download each frame separately.
>
> As I said, HTTPAPI does not try to interpret the contents of the files it
> downloads -- it just downloads them.  Interpreting them is up to you :)
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is the FTPAPI mailing list.  To unsubsribe from the list send mail
> to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the body: unsubscribe ftpapi mymailaddr
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the FTPAPI mailing list.  To unsubsribe from the list send mail
to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the body: unsubscribe ftpapi mymailaddr
-----------------------------------------------------------------------